I am not so sure that only LEPs or HKPA pilots voted YES.
Naive pilots, definitely, but some were very senile senior.
With a YES vote, we'd still have training at KA and DEFO. And there's nothing the HKAOA could have done about it anymore. No more CC, no more training ban. Nothing that could have been construed as industrial action. Remember clause 7?
No more bypass pay court case possible.
DEFOs, why not?
But we should be pushing for full expat conditions, which will eventually benefit our own HKPA pilots. Otherwise, we will end up with 1000h DEFO from P2F schemes instead of 4000h ones. And safety definitely won't improve.
If trainers haven't resigned yet, I sure hope they will if the candidates are not up to the expected experience level.