OK, I concede that one.
I am no expert on ag type flying, so maybe i'm approaching this from the wrong angle, but my thoughts are these guys are who they are and achieve the things they achieve because they think for themselves, outside the box and for their own reasons.
A quality lacking in todays highly regulated aviation industry, where everything is based on what the lawyers and beancounters think.
I'm not saying we go back to the old days but we do need to respect it for what it was.