I can only agree with a fellow Yak pilot
Perhaps there is something particularly English about this though. I often think that in England, you give your pilots a moving map GPS, an IMC rating and a radar information service, and he thinks he is driving an airliner, and becomes dependent on an airliner-style Air Traffic Control Service, without the training or the airspace to support it.
In France, our pilots cannot fly IFR until they have an instrument rating, a qualification which very few of them ever get. We have FIS-based Flight Information Services which do not want to talk to you, and our flying clubs do not go for long range touring. Most priviate flights are just circuits, or visits to nearby aerodromes for coffee and a chat.
As a result, we don't suffer so much from this disease. Perhaps this is why so many of us get confused and violate your controlled airspace when we visit
