Too many great posts here to quote them all. So I will feebly attempt to remember what was said.

Perhaps management thinks this is the best way to fill seats. Perhaps also, some of us will choose this route to an airline career.

The bottom line is we control what we choose to do. If we choose to go the abinit route, then we have further condemned this profession.

To bolster the Sultans point, Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment. Neither comes from abinit training.