How many of you so-called traffic control "experts" are willing to try doing half as good a job as the controllers now do?
How many of you commercial pilots would be able to function the extended stress of constant and consistent vigilance AC controllers function under. Their job is not to spend the first hour checking and taking off (at a rather easy pace and stress level) then swithcing on the 'auto pilot' and sipping coffee while monitoring instruments While the set for hours monitoring screens with constant moving objects threaten to play pong if they make a mistake. You have responsibility for your plane and it's passengers. They and all of your planes and passengers on their shoulders.
Are they perfect, not by a long shot.
But are you?