you sound like a wise 35yo. Hanging around those old folk has some benefits.
I worked really hard with no one to help in a rural community to get my licence at 13, then after saving up and buying an old tube rig finding the disappointment of talking to old men about the weather.
Leave some spectrum available, as unregulated as feasible, with some bar to entry.
Let nature, human nature, fill the gap. It will. In ways we can't predict.
There will be serendipity, genius, frustration, innovation, conflict, debate. These are all good things when you give a shared resource to passionate smart motivated (qualified) public.
FT8 is amazing and would be an amazing way to suck people on HN in. It's fun without transmitting. I'm at the bottom of New Zealand and get transmissions from all over the world including our antipode, Europe. And that's with a crappy short wave receiver with a tiny built in antenna that you can get for <$100.
The fact that someone made the FT8 modulation scheme up out or the blue and people started adopting it and using it and having fun shows the spirit of ham radio.
I bet there are folk on here who would be able to come up with some interesting new modulation schemes to push the envelope even further.
It's a shame that the venn diagram intersection between the modern tech world and ham radio isn't larger.
I drive and maintain older mercs, and don't really give a shit about problems in the first 90 days, for me it's number of problems at 20 years. These surveys don't reveal anything about that.
I feel for the hard core automotive engineers who are forced to allow the monstrosity that is Bluetooth into their works of art.
Surely just installing an app voluntarily would get enough tracing to be effective?
As a kiwi who has spent half my life living in different countries, I can say trust in the government here, while not universal, is higher than anywhere else I've been. I think most people would do it
Hope you get to read this before it gets downvoted to oblivion.