Isn't it so sad that our flying talk is constantly occupied with changes to regulations/requirements and paperwork-in-the-weeds-trivia. The 'system' seems to have lost site of the core point of all this - to ensure safe and competent pilots. Surely the 'system's' effort would be better spent engaging with FIs and people actually doing the job out there to look at recurrent problems like carb icing/landing accidents, rather than stupid paperwork exercises that mess everyone around.
The military seem to regulate their aircrew without such reams of paperwork. From what I have seen, there is more emphasis on local supervision/standardisation and empowerment of local supervisors - perhaps something to learn from??