EASA have not only a legal but moral obligation if they now want to change things to do so which is at least is minimally damaging in time and money to those involved.
Not sure if I should agree. Actually the European parliament has decided to regulate. Why? Possibly - but that is a guess - because some nat. Authorities wanted them to do so. And, to the uneducated such as members of the EU parliament it sounds "good" to regulate. 'Not regulated' has nowadays the flair of 'wild west'. Really bad...
Now, what EASA proposes / has decided and the way to take influence is a different matter, anyone that does work for a living and tells me he has been able to really check what has been proposed and then comment and - most important - that his input had a real impact: hats off. Last but not least: it did not matter that probably most of us think that the regulation is a total overkill.