I work at a GAAP. None of us have an issue with changing to class D. Is it going to be worth the hassle? Time will tell.
It does mean we will most likely require 4 people in the cab from now on (rather than 3) and our min staffing jumps 6 (and I believe most GAAP's are in a similar position).
Where these 6 people are coming from is very much up in the air, but ATC's don't just appear over night. For those not aware, a tower course takes about 11 months in Melbourne, then another 6 months of training (at least here) to get fully rated in the tower. This assumes you pass everything first time round. A rated controller cross training has 10 weeks of training to get up to speed - again assuming all goes well. Longer if not. I figure we have about 26 weeks. I haven't even mentioned actually needing line controllers to do the training.
The date is 6 months away now (more or less) and still no one knows how the training is going to be conducted, nor what training is even going to be required. Interesting times ahead, but I certainly would not say anyone here is against or even resistant to the change.
As a relatively new controller I hope its not a change for changes sake and that it isn't going to slow everything down (as seems to be the vicious rumours from industry at the moment).
I guess we will know the answers to all this in 6 months - if we have the staff to do it.