What people need to understand is that there is a fundamental difference between the CAA of, say, 15 years ago and what we have now, thanks in no small measure to EASA. Back in the day, one could expect that all levels of management had at least a passing knowledge of some area of aviation and front line staff would have been at the top of their game, probably having been examiners of some considerable experience before being seduced to the dark side. These days, middle and senior management have, generally speaking, close to zero experience of aviation and the worker bees have, at best, a somewhat tenuous grasp of the realities of flight training. Arguably, of course, if the only requirement of an inspector is now to tick the appropriate boxes in a computer generated checklist, a tenuous grasp is all that is necessary.
The really worrying thing is that, in just a few months, this bunch of daisies is expected to re-adopt the mantle of Regulator when most are barely capable of regulating their own bowel movements. God help us all!