In summary, you had about 250 hours, no turbine time and a fresh commercial - nothing close to the ATP & 1,000 turbine. Yet earlier in this thread you assert that inexperience is the reason for "more of this kinda stuff". Do you have access to the FOQA & ASAP data, and already know the crew composition and training history ?
Currently United requirements are higher than when you entered the industry. By regulation, even RJ operators have higher requirements than when you started.
Yes, your summary is fairly close to being correct. But keep in mind - I was not the norm. The program I did was fairly rare and not everyone entering the industry at that time did the RJ program to get hired with a wet commercial. There were literally only a handful of those programs.
But you conveniently left OUT the part about those coming in with good, clean records versus checkered training. Accident history in this country has shown - and you can look all of them up yourself - the pilot error accidents have almost ALL been guys who had a checkered history. Eg, multiple training failures. Atlas, UPS, Colgan. And the checkride numbers of today speak for themselves. Ask around. Something has definitely changed. More and more people are just not doing as well as pilots used to do a few years back, when it comes to checkrides - and what I imagine is attitude / mindset towards a (lack of) passion for aviation.
Looking back, my career entry track was kinda crazy. But I had a clean record, good attitude, and could fly well (enough)
and didn't have any ASAPs as a newhire at my regional. Competent people can do okay as low timers. It's how Lufthansa has perfected their ab-initio program and have one of the safest flying records in the world.
But, GASP, that involves FIRING pilots who are incompetent, instead of union protecting the weak and letting them fly until they put one into the ground. I think I once said on JC that if you bust 3 or more checkrides, maybe you shouldn't fly for an airline. That was, of course, met with personal attacks and disdain. Heck, I put a Raven article about them gloating on getting a guy hired with FOUR part 121 failures and people here took offense to that too.
MPL is coming here whether we like it or not. Until AI takes over, we are not gonna have the pilot supply to fly the jets that airlines need occupied for the next 30 yrs. It's how we choose to do it that will set what "safe" looks like. It's my humble opinion you WILL have to let go of the incompetent, multiple failure types.