Time will tell about the increased risk of incapacity-related accidents with the NPPL and maybe it wil be good news. Quite possibly, it will be. All I know is that there will undoubtedly, 100%, be people flying passengers with an NPPL who I would not let any non-pilot friends or relations fly with for medical reasons. (There are many more people, I suspect, with absolutely clean bills of health who I would not let any non-pilot friends or relations fly with for NON-medical reasons!)
I should say, too, that I am in favour of the NPPL principle when it comes to med standards, that the solo / safety pilot cert is excellent and I have no qualms with it, but I'm just not so sure about the unrestricted cert in its current incarnation.
I want people to fly. Honest.
QDM