Aha! So perhaps neither Bose-X or I can be considered "Joe Average". Horses for courses, I guess.
On the other hand, I learned to drive off-road, on mud, 40 years ago on cross-ply tyres, when skidding was considered something quite ordinary. One of my cars still gets used off-road, and still uses cross-ply tyres.
I was taught spin recoveries in my first week of aviation in 1971, aged 15, just before I was sent solo in a glider. The powered syllabus I later taught included spinning, seen again as something quite routine. We were required to practice high rotational spin recoveries every month.
I guess in Bose's book that makes me a worse pilot and driver than himself.
I maintain my view that today's average PPL sees spinning as something to be feared, but with little understanding of it (and very little chance of successful recovery if one was accidentally entered).