I did start to read it and one thing I've already noted with quite some alarm is how few hours pilots had when they were hired by Lion Air. 900 hours? FFS, I wouldn't want to get into any airplane that had any required crew member with that few a number of hours.

I've recently been thinking about changing my "Never Airbus" attitude for precisely the reason the article appears to be heading: new pilots are incompetent. I'd bet the overwhelming majority of them have never read this and that is alarming. The decline in airmanship among ATP's began (imo) with the opening of commercial (read: for profit) flight schools. Back in the good old days of accessible commercial aviation (the 60's and 70's) most airline captains and first officers were retired military pilots. Those pilots had not only survived flying with people shooting at them, but had also received the superior flight training that only a public, non-profit school could provide.

Still, I've not yet abandoned my position that, "When flying commercial, I want to see two things: a Boeing logo on the side of the aircraft and grey hair in the left seat."