leftfrontside,
When you have no choice, two things happen: you either find a way to avoid the problem or you accept the risk. After a while, avoidance seems too hard, so you accept the risk anyway. One day something really bad happens - what really hurts then is when you discover just how risk tolerant you have become when you truly believed that you were just the opposite.
Class E airspace is simply a commercial compromise between C and G - it was never designed on a safety basis, merely risk management driven by cost benefit that favours recreational aviation.
What we have now is a change that offers no cost saving and diluted safety - despite your suggestion that we are backward, I intend to kick and scream some more because I don't accept that other airspace models are necessarily right.
I want to maximise my chances to
Stay Alive,