What may, or may not, be palatable to the general audience is that the fix isn't going back to the way we did things before.
And therein lies one of the problems. If the seniors do not understand, or care, how hard people are working, for constantly declining TaCOS, with gapped posts and an attitude of just do more with less, but without the perks, then no-one should be surprised that HM Forces are in a terminal decline. It is a simple fact that regular manpower across all 3 armed forces needs to be going up not down.