WB
Not sure how you concluded
You don't have to agree with someone's point of view to understand and respect it. Does yet another thread have to turn into "there are those who do my sort of flying, and the stupid ignorant fools who'll probably give up anyway".
from what I wrote. Obviously I was writing tongue in cheek (as I do so frequently); everybody knows that not everybody is into gyms and tennis or whatever.
The "slight" problem that you are left with is how to explain the PPL churn rate.
My main point is that it is driven not by cost (i.e. budget shortage) but by a lack of return.
But we have done this one to death before...