Then of course there is the self-evident fact that there is no significant collision problem in UK VFR airspace - at least, the statistics don't indicate one, but one suspects that the majority of VFR pilots are at least subliminally aware that they keep a grossly inadequate lookout and this is a means of compensating.
What it results in is that no one - least of all those who do fly responsibly, have any idea what direction a conflict is likely to appear from which actually makes the situation less safe, not more. But as chaos is the inevitable result of anarchy why would anyone be surprised?
A similar thing is happening in the boating world where some idiots are replacing their steady, all round anchor light with a strobe apparently on the spurious reasoning, if I may so misuse that word, that it "makes them more visible". Spurious because there is no evidence of yachts at anchor being run into by anything, let alone anything that might do them any harm (yachts very, very seldom anchor in other than shallow and secluded water where big ships simply can't go) and the added problem that a strobe turns them, in the eyes of a proper navigator, into a Northerly Cardinal, a rather important buoy marking a dangerous obstruction and is this highly misleading. The fact that some show this strobe while alongside a jetty or on a mooring buoy where no such lights are appropriate suggets that this is at least partly a bizarre form of showing off/attention getting by demonstrating a wilful disregard of well understood rules adhered to by the majority.
If so it seems to indicate character traits that are incompatible with the activity in question.