GDU,
It was a rhetorical question...Asked to go somewhat towards dispelling the myth of the cat B disappearing and being replaced by cat A labour. As I pointed out it will be the AME who will be replaced by the cat A more so than the cat B.
As human nature dictates, people do not like change and they are afraid of the unknown. Part 66 is just that to a lot of people who gain their knowledge about it in the smoko room.
Goal posts virtually never moved in this industry in Australia for many many decades. In the last twenty years industry change has been enormous for Australian engineers compared to the prior 50 years. Change will increase more so over the next 5-10 years. If you can learn to move with that change and benefit in the ways that change can give, you will have a far more rewarding career.
For the 30 year institutionalised QF LAME that is probably not much help...For the newly rated QF LAME it is maybe a little more understandable.