Welcome to the “administrative state”. That’s where politicians set up agencies to regulate. They are given sweeping powers and have near 0 accountability. It becomes tyrannical as we see here. The FAA needs to be re-constituted so that stake-holders have seats at the table with actual voting power in the rule making process. Who would be stakeholders? GA, Airlines, Manufacturers, and the FAA itself. Stakeholders having input and voting power would help common sense enter into an otherwise out of touch bureaucracy. Some would claim this arrangement would be effectively the “fox guarding the hen house”. That is a risk, but the present concentration of power is unacceptable. Surely some balance of power is possible.