I agree criticalmass.
I reckon there was a whole lot of stuff not really thought through on the CTA endorsement, so we're probably lucky it got rejected.
There's also a strong body of thought among RA members that we were better off without it - and for those who really wanted/needed to fly in CTA there was always the option to go PPL (which many of us are anyway).
And, given that many schools use GA instructors in planes that can be VH registered, that would not necessarily be a huge step (for instance, our school encourages RA students to sit the PPL BAK exam rather than the RA one - and a fair proportion of our students swap to PPL at the nav stages).
So, probably all for the good.
And despite VH-XXX's comments at the start of the thread, I don't actually see a whole lot of whingeing and moaning going on over at the other forum!