Avman, if One Kemble Street want a final nail in the coffin of the Fam Flight scheme, you and certain other posters have supplied it.
If "the good days" encompassed unqualified people flying commercial aircraft (including to my mind sitting in a control seat in flight) with the consequences like the accident in Russia or a comparatively recent alleged level bust in the UK then it is good that they are over. It's quite worrying that people like you probably hold ATCO licences.