You are skirting around the real emerging problem in my opinion......which is exactly the same as we face on our roads every day.
That is that our Governments have progressively fostered the replacement of all forms of self discipline with a requirement for blind obedience to the law. You can see the result every day on the roads. Provided you obey the law you can do anything stupid and dangerous you like on the roads with complete impunity. Furthermore, once the threat of speed cameras, radars, lasers, etc. is removed, down goes the hammer and stupidity ensues - no self discipline. No self identification with being perhaps a "skilled and responsible driver". The police treat you like an idiot, so you act like an idiot.
In matters aviational this process is also well advanced. You need an ASIC, you must do this, and you can't do that, drug and alcohol testing, locks on aircraft, or else! The more the authorities treat the pilots of small aircraft as irresponsible idiots to be controlled/ prosecuted/ reprimanded/ etc., the more they will act like idiots.