More training nearly always translates into a safer pilot, lowering risk for most or all aspects of a flight, and not just the limited flight envelope a BRS is certified for. And useful load doesn't necessarily mean more bags or bums. *Fuel* is useful load too.
All good.
Denigrating the ballistic parachute by your earlier comment that "risk is not great enough to justify the cost" belittles the innovation.
Cirrus decided that you could not buy one without CAPS; no option. In the history of CAPS deployments, pilots found themselves in a wide variety of situations, well beyond the expected scenarios imagined by the innovators.
All too often, critics and skeptics trot out their hypotheses about other ways of handling those bad situations. Of course, one cannot prove those hypotheses because you were not there, you did not experience what that pilot experienced. Except, we now can interview the pilot and learn something from their decisions.
I put it to you, is living a sufficient reward for pulling the red parachute handle? So far, 100% of the people aboard Cirrus aircraft survived when the parachute was activated within design parameters. And 4 people died and 12 survived in 10 accidents when the parachute was activated too low or too fast.
Cheers
Rick