Absolutely correct dh, morfiend.
If your not reaching the new guys, your going to have a whole crop of MA pilots who are not interested in skill, acm, etc. Just in the quickest way to HO and go land them.
Its up to us the community to point them in the right direction. Not to put them down, for being new, unskilled, etc. But to lift them up, get them climbing the same slope we have climbed.