The way management see it is that pilots DONT fly the aircraft no more just monitor it, so why should they get paid $400,000 a year to "fly" it if a monkey can do it.
I think with technology getting better the skill of flying is dying out slowly,
the idea of an aerobatics course in the syllabus is a good idea and increases safety with unusaul attitude awareness.
When I was obtaining my ATPL my ground instructor was in a meeting with the CAA about the use of question banks. The question banks are not official there just questions people remember and they talk about it in the class room and some one has decided to make money out of it, so you cant stop it in a way, but instead have 10 different versions of the same question so people cant jsut remember A,B or C