But that's the thing. People don't enter this industry because they heard the grounded version of reality that most people scoff on this site. The only people who enter this industry with a grounded sense of reality is the career changers or the mil retiree crowd, both which do not rely on the industry lack-luster compensation to survive day to day. In eseence they are hobby pilots. For the rest of the peanut gallery, you better bet your bottom dollars they're coming in with the optimism-bias version of the industry of rapid left seat upgrade, major for 20+ years and six figure wide-body CA position with plenty of days off. That's why they keep lining up at Purdue/ER/UND et al or the allATPs of the world.

So I agree with you that we need to continue pushing forth the truth, but disagree this will lead to less disillusioned-prone people entering the profession. No, if the truth was better received you would simply have less people entering the field outright. No matter how much in love somebody is with aviation, only those who are not worried about paying the rent with this job pursue the industry without abandon. The rest simply delude themselves into thinking sour grapes stories of economic hardship will be an exception to their reality. If they actually internalized the statistically factual version of this industry they would not set foot at all I bet you that. So nothing has changed.