There are suggestions here that civilians don't know and don't care about the RAF cuts
The message in the press is that there are already too many trained pilots in the pipeline for the existing fleet and as the public know Harrier is gone and MRA4 is gone as well, they probably add two and two together and conclude the answer is four.
Do they care ? Not creating more trained pilots when we already have a surplus is not going to be a matter of outrage for the public who are already looking at their own jobs disappearing.