It's easy enough for all of us to sit at our computers and come up with all sorts of requirements, but the fact is that the FAA is not going to regulate much, if any, of it. That's not the way things work here. Requiring ASOS for every base, and all IFR ships sounds nice, but it ain't gonna happen. Not in our lifetimes, and probably not in our grandchildrens' lifetimes. We live (or die) with what we get, and what we get is the minimum required by regulation, because the USA is a capitalist country, driven by profits, not safety or moral rectitude. Whether more regulation should be enacted is moot - it won't be.