Wegs, I think that sums it all up quite nicely.

The point of all this was that students were racking up huge amounts of flight training debt going into these jobs desperate to pay them off. Hopefully with this new barrier to entry the regional airlines can't be flooded with low-time guys willing to work for nothing. In the end it might make your career path a little longer but I assure you it will be worth it if we can make the airlines a more livable place to work.

CFI is perhaps the best and most obvious solution. There's also light cargo from places like Ameriflight, Ram, etc that would also be of help. It depends on how many hours you left training with. I know if you're like most with 300 hours or so I think you're pretty much only going to find work instructing, maybe right seat in a King Air or Lear.