Yes, yes, yes. We've heard it all before.
For heavens' sake stop whingeing about how hard your job is and how hard pilots make your job unnecessarily. Whilst some may simply fail to report speed control through sheer laziness or lack of professionalism, such cases are, in my experience, extremely rare.
Yes, there are some pilots whose R/T is bad. There are some whose R/T is good, and whose airmanship good.
Similarly, there are competent ATCers and appalling ones everywhere.
Most of your job is based around communicating with us. Most of our job is NOT centred around communicating with you. Get used to it.
Our priotities are:-[list=1][*]Aviate[*]Navigate[*]Communicate[/list=a]So you come bottom of our list of priorities, along with talking to the other pilot, and just above talking to the cabin crew and then passengers. If you happen to catch us at a rather busy time (which descent and approach IS), then we can forget things. So you have to issue extra separation instructions. Whoopee. Better safe than sorry, certainly. And sorry for the extra workload. But it happens.
We're all working to the same aim. We're on the same team. So it doesn't do much good always to point the finger and blame others on your team. Appreciate that we have higher priorities than talking to you.