Perhaps the rage comes from dealing with comments like your Bino's?
If we were all comfortably in the 100K salaries as you infer (not unlike our friend Dudley will be spouting in the media no doubt) you might have a point.
The demographics have changed my friend. The MAJORITY of ATC now earn far less than that.
We are not ALL so comfortably close to retirement as to not want to fight for our true worth.
If the division comes from people worried about their FAS, maybe they should have been supporting the B-Scalers who now make up the numbers?
Or as you say - stop creating the Divisions.