It would have been nice if EASA perhaps published a 'plain English' Q&A to accompany the publication of these documents, it would be so much easier than this constant debate about what the regs and their potential implications are.
The problem I see is that I doubt the Commission and the European Parliament really know much about what EASA is actually doing, aviation is quite a technical subject and unless someone explains to them why some of the proposals are a bad idea they won't have any reason to reject them.