Well, your post strikes me as supportive of the status quo. I don't find the status quo beneficial to the improvement and access of general aviation to the socio-economic class I belong to and selfishly root for, the middle class. If wanting to drive the cost down and increase the base makes me "sour grapes and little more" then ok chief.
The majority of my peers in military aviation have largely given up their desire for GA, mostly on economic grounds. Yet, we are the ambassadors of aviation when we showcase our aircraft at airshows et al. Showing that little kid the cockpit of a T-6 or B-52H is bittersweet when I gotta tell mom and dad, 'yeah civilian aviation is prohibitive'; I'm not gonna lie to the kid. But according to the shoulder shrugging crowd in GA it's all about a race to the top. It's not about lowering the threshold of attainability, which by virtue of that it incentivizes market investment in GA (and the preservation of a wide-experience domestic pilot pool base). No, it's about getting a rich job so you can afford the elite hobby and perpetuate the legal and tort prohibitions commandeered by the very "more money than talent" crowd that snarks at diluting access cost, and their affinity for gear up landings in expensive spam cans.
A large number of us who serve this Country in a flying capacity didn't become exposed to aviation by rich daddy, boss. We were low middle class kids with potential and hunger, who were barely able to save up some money for a private license. Sour grapes? You've got my stake in aviation completely wrong boss.
I'll continue my participation in GA as a flight instructor and a liaison between the military and civilian community partners that share this Country's airspace (you largely CANT find mil flyers actively involved in GA anymore, as a percent of the squadron). But I'll call a spade a spade; I'm not one to cheerlead the economic pricing out of the socioeconomic class that makes and sustains the professional pilot pool of this country. I think it borders on treason, if I may add some gratuitous melo-drama to this discourse.
I'm not suggesting everybody should be able to afford turbine equipment on a taco bell wage, but a functional 4 place single engine machine shouldn't be 40 years behind my jeep wrangler "phallus", powerplant-wise and cost more than a new yacht. That's all Im saying. If I may be more blunt, you need more people like me staying in GA and less people of the "well, I can afford it, so tough" kind. Class warfare and all. We need better ambassadors than the non-current plastic surgeon and the people who buy the new 400K speed-o-light-depreciation Cessna for the obvious tax shelter that it is. We need a better model.