I find it hard to believe this thread has gone on for 4 pages.
Pace:
You apear to be personally offended that that you are being required to do 10 hours of dual. I think this is a totally pointless attitude and whinging on about this in pprune IMO verges on the unprofessional.
Like many other areas in aviation mandatory hours minimums are being applied. You have two choices.
1) Do the 10 hours, or
2) Ask the owners of the aircraft that you want to fly to make an application to the insurance company to evaluate your experience and accept a reduced level of required training. I have personally had several instances where I was able to get insurance required minimums reduced or even waived on application of a specific request.
If the owners do not want to make the application or the insurance company does not want to bend then suck it up and pick choice 1 or find another airplane !