The net, and bulletin boards such as PPRUNE, either blow this problem out of the water or make it so difficult to achieve that much of the problem has disappeared, I suspect.
I believe that you're half correct.
The net, and bulletin boards such as PPRUNE, have provided "the problem" with a place to take refuge from the realities of the modern world. Imagine if some of the crackpots posting on here were actually flying paying passengers around the sky!
