I saw a similar thread being opened in the Western Europe area of this board and already had my popcorn ready, but that one has no replies.
There is a mixed message here about this "zero to pro" course. You say it's a good program and you train the divers to be knowledgeable and safe and at the same time say that they are ready to continue learning and gaining experience. Well, the card you give them at the end does not say that, it says they are professionals. You're selling a card just for the card and there are many divers who go to DM just because that is the highest cert before instructor, but who don't want to work as DM, they want to flash the card. Maybe you are appealing to those.
But if a DM certified by you wants to go and work, are you shifting the responsibility of identifying good DMs to the employers? Of course they should all try to find the best, but they should also be able to trust a certification.
Instead of doing DM and then gaining more experience, what people view as being better is gaining experience and then doing DM! Of course, that one is hard to sell as a package.
Your attempt to include more training is better than other similar programs that exist out there, but the total number of dives is still short, the DMs will only know your local dive sites, your diving centre, your way of doing things... and being in winter can add some extra challenges, but what happens when you don't have customers or when it's not possible to dive? Let it slide with less dives? Do some short, shallow and sheltered dives to reach the count? That defeats the purpose...
And by the way, I dived with you some years ago. I had probably the worst DM I have ever encountered. Moving a lot underwater (hands included), "hunting" for things to show (practically harassing a small octopus)... I guess they feel the need to show stuff to the customers, and he had no depth gauge/timer and was asking us the dive time!