Some excellent discussion, both for and against going on in here lately. Good to see.
Sheik, totally agree with what you're saying & in an ideal situtation would love to see that type of outcome without an RFL also. The only stumbling block is an organisational platform or voice to make that happen.
There has been, and still is a handful of political groups, angler groups, marine boating groups or action groups on a particular issue all pretty well up the same path but none have or had the backing to do anything too significant in the long term.
An RFL,... on our terms, is a defacto way of being more in charge of our destiny & more importantly having the $$ to make some changes.