Sled, in any change there are winners and losers. You are judging the objections of others by the value you put on those things and not how they see them. Taking your attitude I don't give a rats about the cost of ADS-B as I'm not paying and it makes my job easier. Whereas in fact I can entirely see why people are objecting.
Whereas I do give a rats about replacing C with dirt tack E when it's purely for ideological reasons and nearly killed a 737 of pax.