Oz Cirrus,
I stand corrected on the airframe life. It WAS 4,350 hrs on the SR22, it is now 12,000 hrs. I will attempt to research more thoroughly. You seem to be connected at the hip to Cirrus so I can understand your sensitivity on the subject.
The point you and others pro-cirrus ppruners try and make about the BRS is that it should only be used "only in accordance with the POH", and that's where I see the problem begins. If someone is in a stall/spin or other loss of control situation, do you expect them to remember exactly what the POH says and recover the aircraft to the BRS operating envelope, or simply go for the BRS activation in the hope it will save their life?
To contemplate using the BRS the pilot has most likely done something seriously wrong and unlikely to have the skills to recover from the situation.
But then if they did recover to normal flight, they wouldn't need the BRS.