Gig 601XL Builder writes:

Tell me what is so restrictive about it. The type of flight it authorizes
would cover 90% of the recreational GA flight in the US.

It's restrictive because it wouldn't allow me to fly in a way that would make
flying worthwhile. I don't just want to putter around in a circle.

Because of the additional cost of the aircraft and the general lack of need
for it in recreational GA flying.

In other words, time, expense, and difficulty, QED.

So it is your stance that the requirements for a private pilot ticket are on
par with the requirements to be a lawyer or doctor?

They are certainly on a par with becoming a lawyer, which (surprisingly) isn't
that difficult in the U.S. They are comparable to becoming a doctor as well,
depending on how far you want to go.