If you were old enough to vote, you might be able to do something about the CAA.
But as you're already coming down off your high horse, I'll not be so harsh on you.
At what point does one require a CPL. When you're an employee flying a company aircraft on company or private business? When you're flying your own aircraft to a business meeting? When you're flying your own aircraft accompanied by a colleague to a business meeting? When the company covers your travel costs?
We've not even begun to discuss the C of A of the aircraft yet. Can you begin to understand the detail and extent of the task they have been set?
Again, you're not old enough to remember the bad old days of the CAA.
What you have now is a body which is coming round to serving the public and still needs improvement in some ways.
They are also having to fight the political battle with the European involvement in their
task. Thus, for example, you get the NPPL which is probably the most forward thinking initiatives in the history of GA.
Furthermore, they allow the PFA to regulate maintenance of certain aircraft types and the BGA to regulate gliding.
I too long for those golden days gone by and wish we could get on with the flying. We can't! If you don't like the smell, get out of the cowshed. Or join AOPA and at least have a voice.
By the way, don't compare the CAA and the FAA . Their bureaucracy is in some ways worse than ours and the population density is nearly TEN times that of the UK. Its a different kettle of fish.