Ranga I think you are right.
What I want to know is how we got to this point. I can accept the fare-paying public are after minimal risk (read: what they perceive as no risk). But GA is largely pilot + 0-3, like a car. Pretty much same profile of pax (friends, family).
Yet somehow over these years the standards too have become 5x higher than cars.
What I want to know is why the public require (at our expense and private enjoyment) that light aircraft confirm to a very high set of standards, higher than any other form of transportation when the risk to general public is so tiny.