Thats all well and good that you 200 hour wonder pilots are now in the position to upgrade. But having flown with low timers from both seats, I'll take the guy thats been around the block over a low timer any day. My ranking of who I want sitting next to me,
1. Freight dawgz
2. Military
3. CFI/UND/Riddler
4. Corporate
5. Gulfstreamer
6. Jet U'er

This list is only based on prior flying experience. I've flown with all of them and this is just my opinion. Sure there are some streamers and U'ers I like flying with, but overall they seem to lack a depth of aviation experience flying outside the spoon fed, watered down, relatively easy part 121 flying we do. Personally, I think everyone should fly some part 135 single pilot ops before they come to the regionals, but why do the hard thing when a job a Pinchanickle is virtually assured by one of these "direct entry" programs?