Oh dear Obie, or should I write Odie?
A lot of noise and praise for the powers in charge, but no own analysis of the matter.
If any proposal of change or raising a question as to the viability of procedures concerning safety just creates your pathetic " ... follow the SOPs, they're written by smarter people than you ..." , then you have put yourself in a very low corner of aviation professionalism.
Just stay there and I hope we never meet in the real world ...... Mate!!