You are 100% correct, however, does everyone do what they are suppose to, do we all drive the speed limit. You always need to remember the human factor, and we are all imperfect people that screw up once in a while.
Of course, the human factor can always be a handicap, but in trained personnel. You have brought up the subject of RC fields, which is the only place, in the past, where you could fly model airplanes. Among the members of the club themselves, with many decades of experience, you learn the rules. But, and this is a great BUT, today you can fly a drone anywhere, the amateurs are no longer limited to a RC field and here I think the big mistake lies.
In a RC field, you have a limited area that is fixed and that the other professionals (pilots of manned airplanes, or not) know beforehand. Since the rules change, any amateur, without any knowledge can fly anywhere and the most serious is that they do not even know where to look to distinguish the different types of airspace. I no longer speak of distances, especially heights, which would be the most basic.
This being so, because, due to these incidents, we have things increasingly difficult for professionals and do they not restrict amateurs once and for all in any way. How many times I have commented with colleagues, that it is better to fly as an amateur than as a professional, the consequences of doing things wrong are much more lax when you do it as an amateur. As a professional who knows the rules, as you can think of breaking them, up to millions of fine, an amateur would not approach those amounts and on top of that, in most cases, are the ones who commit the greatest barbarities.
For me, things as they are now don't make sense
