"Shortage of qualified personnel are of more concern than previously understood"
Just to be clear, that should read "understood by the MAA", as it was clearly understood by everyone else involved in airworthiness and, for example, emphasised in a report dated January 2000 and patently obvious in many reports by the RAF's Inspector of Flight Safety from the 1990s.
So, having demonstrated they can read old reports and pprune, what are the MAA doing about it?