Agreed - a lot of water under the bridge and far too many accidents (so often repeatable ones). At some point you do have to blame the pilot, there is no excuse in modern aviation for ignorance of the dangers.
The 'no-blame' culture of safety management systems has helped people report near misses but it hasn't stopped the fatal accidents a SMS is supposed to prevent.
We are not pioneering as in the days of Lindbergh, we are using aircraft to do a job - or sometimes for recreation - office workers don't sit under a grand piano suspended from the ceiling by a fraying rope but that is what pilots keep doing by flying in crappy weather at low level.