Cant argue with you TC. What is needed is clarity about the level of risk combined with good training and an appreciation of one's limitations. The individual can then decide the level of risk he is prepared to take and whether they can fly to that level of risk. In that respect the decision process is no different than many other industries.
What I dont see in other industries however is the incessant baying from within the industry to attempt to eliminate a major proportion of itself. Especially when the initiating event has not been reported and may well be pilot error, not aircraft design. We simply do not know if the impact would have been survivable in the absence of fire.
Now back to the lawn mower