Capacity constriction and scope relaxation = less than one-for-one attrition replacement. Your retirement wave is DOA. Many won't listen and will continue to become statistics.

If your dream is a perma regional CA, with all that regional flying entails QOL-wise, and never making over 100K, there will be a job for you. If you are looking at the guys retiring right now, forget it, that's gone. If you think there's going to be a slide-in replacement of folks to these jobs in the next 3 decades, you're fooling yourself. It's your journey though; I'm running full steam ahead, AWAY from the terminal (i.e. working for money, and flying for fun). Good luck, we're all counting on ya.