A couple of very unsympathetic responses there!
I agree Who. It seems very unfair to me too. Like you I, along with others, promised ourselves that we would take it up with the CAA once we'd done all the trivia and got the license. Then when those precious licenses finally flopped through peoples letterboxes we all thought, "Ah what the hell."
Not very comforting I know. You've obviously tried appealing to them on an individual assessment basis?