One of ABC's intentions is that the airfields will be run by Highlands and Islands so this is certainly nothing to gloat over. Sooner or later ABC are going to have to address the operational costs, hopefully that will mean something like short periods whilst the airfield is licensed for the scheduled flights and the remainder of the time it would be available for unlicensed operations.
The bigger question is if ABC or HIAL staff strike whether the airfields remain available for aircraft which do not need licensed facilities. Hopefully that would be the case - but given that the staff who would be striking are the people who largely make the operational rules we'll just have to see.