postman23;
FWIW, I couldn't agree with your comments more.
But the fact is, here we, rather this industry, are; what do we do?
The FAA has realized, very late in their game, that corporate enterprises cannot be left on their own and trusted to do the right thing. In Canada, the regulator has yet to comprehend that fact and I am franky standing by for a "correction" here which I hope will be adminstrative in nature and not an accident like it took to get both the FAA's and Congress's attention in the US.
The precursors for an accident exist in the data now and are already communicated to those whose responsibility it is to act. An organization thoroughly focussed on the control of costs to the exclusion of all else, is at risk. For change to occur, situational awareness is critical. How that occurs is the question in such an environment. Sites like this help but are not primary agents of change. Regulatory oversight and POI action are required.