Remember how quick boarding was just after 9-11 when you couldn't carry more than a jacket and a carrier bag on board? Sheer Bliss!
The only way around the baggage policy will be if airport security limit what can be carried through pax search.
For them it must be a nightmare trying to scan mountains of baggage, this must be having a security implications and adding to their work load?
I would pay money for a CAA inspector to come to work with me and actually weigh whats coming into the cabin and tell me that in a sudden deceleration all will be comfortably remain stowed. Especially with those ever increasingly flimsy locker doors!?
Question; When do the CAA/FAA step in?
Answer; Only after a plane's gone down and countless people needlessly die or get injured.