I tend to agree about the increasing number of instructions that are being handed out. Not just a British problem though, try taking a ground clearance at BRU, the worst distance travelled to instruction ratio of anywhere I use. AMS does show the way forward in so many areas, lots of auto change frequencies which keep the loading down and a well signposted easy to use layout with inbound and outbound routings marked on the charts so the instruction is normaly very simple as the above poster mentions. Auto change to ground after landing and to departure passing 2000ft work very well.