...the most basic training is abbreviated enough that a MPL pilot graduate is incompetent and legally unable to fly as a rated solo pilot without further training.
It's feared to be one more step toward making the airline pilot profession into true brain-dead bus driving. I believe the consensus around the hangar is that such training programs will produce a pilot who is drastically inferior in skills, experience, and overall safety.
At the very least it will provide corporate management greater justification to slash incentives...to be honest, having gone through the run-of-the mill GA/college training, I couldn't respect that riff raff
This concensus doesn't only hold in hangars. It holds in cockpits too.
Calling people with different attitudes elitists just goes on top of the general opinion that every high school drop out with some cash should have the opportunity to warm the sheepskin. The job is paid accordingly.