Where EASA is concerned - be afraid - be very afraid.
Just like all the UK glider pilots/owners
Not sure why you feel that. The "sports" pilot community is the safest one in Europe. "Pure Leisure VFR" is accepted as given. The committees are stuffed (over-stuffed) with delegates supporting sports aviation even if it screws all of "utility GA".
EASA executive policy is not the problem here. The "problem" with EASA is that we have yet another set of committees on which one bit of GA is happy to shaft the others, just to get easier licensing and medicals for their own group.