Mind you none of this changing legislation (for legislators sakes in my view) had any effect on the safety of whatever was being done. As always that was down to the individuals operating the aircraft.
Well said, John and I wish the miserable, pettifogging €urocrats of EASA would understand that!
As Ernest K Gann wrote in
Fate is the Hunter:
RULE BOOKS ARE PAPER
They will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal