When you have low requirements, say 250hrs minimum, during hiring booms you tend to have rushed training to get to the line ASAP. The problem is that if the training is botched up, it may not show up until years down the line, i.e. the colgan crash. The 1500hr is as much a psychological barrier as an experience one, since it forces you to slow down the training, or to find weakness in your own abilities through teaching others. For ALPA or anyone to try and take that off the table is confusing. Without any explanation from ALPA, you have to start lumping them in with the other groups, ATA, RAA, etc.