I wonder whether we need a more clearly defined separation between private and commercial pilots?
The risk with that, which I believe is real in Europe's highly politicised aviation regulation / ATC union / airline pilot union dominated climate, is that that would result in "private IR" holders being excluded from a lot of
airspace or
airports.
They are already excluded (by pricing) from many airports which are not busy, just for the manager's laugh, and airspace issues would be a disaster.
If it wasn't for ICAO, GA would be dead in nearly all of the world including most of the "civilised" world, except a few countries which have a long history of private flying (USA, UK, Germany, France basically). We
must stick to ICAO licenses and ratings, or face extinction of GA and especially IFR GA.