Arm out the Window,
You are absolutely correct.
If any organization does not suit a member, they normally resign.
AOPA, for all that it is and for all that it is not, membership or non-membership is a personal preference regardless of that person's day job, or is the AOPA the font of all GA knowledge with the future of GA inextricably linked to it?
Carping is a blood sport in GA it seems.