Since when has safety had a financial cost? Apart from in the minds of bean counters and management?
So for those few pilots who tend to make up most of the fatal accident stats in light aircraft. Scud running, dodgy weather etc. Because of cost, we are now going to lose aids that have at times been invaluable to many.
If you can only make comments like VFR should be looking out of the window and IFR don't need them, then I suggest you go out and get caught by a bit of unseasonal and often unforecast crud.
The ident of NDB playing through your headsets and a solid needle offers a lot of help to people. Yes most of us have GPS, but as the CAA are so fond of saying "It isn't approved as a primary navigation aid".
So what are people to do in slightly marginal conditions? With an aid there, they can often get by perfectly safety, without it, well let's just say D&D will become an awful lot busier.
Having flown commercial aircraft under IFR without the benefit of any R-Nav system, then having these aids helps in that situation as well. Are all the IFR charts going to be rewritten when WCO disappears for instance, or will it just become a meaningless dot that only your computer can find unless you get cross cuts from elsewhere?
Nice to see that the needs of the many are being utterly ignorned by the few because "you don't pay for it". Take the money out of the treasury or fuel duty that everyone in GA pays and that the airlines manage to avoid forking out for, if that is the argument.