While I'm sure that you're right, neither the F35 nor Ty Force have the capacity to absorb any extra tasking for display without an increase in resource (never going to happen) or a reduction in other tasking (never going to happen). The Ty display is great but comes out of OCU resource and the wider force is strapped so there's no easy way to draw in extra to support more. I would want my taxpayer cash going to get more Ty on ops rather than more air shows.
While closing the RAFAT may seem like a way to get more pilots / TG1 to the FL I suspect that the shop floor would see it as a removal of another good deal at a time where they're leaving faster than we can replace them and we lack the rewards structure to pay them appropriately....if only we could have bespoke pay scales for our pilots and TG1 as we do for dentists/doctors/nurses/padres/SF etc....or indeed have HR support/MT/C4I etc....