I'd be more than happy for everyone to get a LSGC medal if I can return to my final salary pension, because why is my service deemed less valuable than those who served before me based on an arbitrary date?
The reality is that regardless of feelings of right or wrong, we do not live in a world of endless means. Although I would love to still be on a final salary pension, it is simply unaffordable now with all you retired folk living to 130.
It would be nice to award the medal to everyone but there is no gain to defence in doing so and therefore is an unnecessary expense. Life isn't always fair.