I agree there is a really sad anti-hobbyist bias. The FAA are criminal in holding back anything other than incredibly big industry, but I still tend to think it's mostly negligence & scale, that they have real concerns at scale to tackle & can't allocate 20% of their resources to letting necessary clutch innovation & experimentation happen.

I do think people are broadly incredibly resentful. But I also think these critics would be enormously more interesting to listen to if they had nuance & perspective, if they could acknowledge how necessary it was that we did things like create the EPA & how important it is to safeguard & protect ourselves in a long term. So much of the dissent is pure disdain, just inchoate rage, and it's unclear that folks are worth heeding.

There is a huge propaganda network running very very effectively on rage against any governance. It has become a horrible mind poison.