Agreed - sensible talk indeed, my posts on this forum fully concur.
Whats alarming to me is, it seems a complete waste of time trying to communicate facts and reality on social media, including on this forum. Today we have a new phenomena called 'alternative facts', never had these in my day or before the social media explosion. Good luck to all trying to find out what the real facts are - anybody got any suggestions of where to go for them?
Bottom line, keep the flying dream alive, its in everyone future if they want it badly enough, conserve fuel (money), go modular, don't pay large sums upfront, do your research, pay as little as you can and complete your training from zero to CPL/IR for $40-50K max!