It just seems beyond comprehension that these controllers are alone !
yes. it would appear that the regulator is,
ahem!, asleep at the wheel.
I have not read one interpertation that didn't somehow scream "I don't know anything about aviation but I have I law degree so I must be an expert".
And that is the nub of the issue with many factors in the regulatory bodies. We have drifted away from those that started out at the grass roots and worked their up through the system gaining experience at all levels of the system into those with Law degrees, Accounting degrees, Management degrees becoming career civil servants. they have no conceptual understanding of what the department they officiate within actually does, or those that they regulate actually function, so inherently we end up with policy drives that are detrimental to the situation they regulate and policy is then driven by kneee jerk policy to the uncovered failures.
great
innit !