Over-dramatic? Let's take atv's/utv's for example:
At one time no registration needed and you could ride pretty much wherever a trail was.
Now; You have to register for both off highway and on highway use. They have all but closed most trails on Forest Service land (which by the way all of us pay taxes on). Now you have a whole bunch of riders crammed into a very small area with ridiculous restrictions like if you are over 50" you can't ride here, if you have 4 wheels instead of 2 wheels you can't ride here.
Keep thinking your way and this will be the future of UAV's.
1. Registration
2. Liability insurance, cost based on how often you fly
3. Designated flying areas, a whole bunch of people flying in small congested areas.
So my point is the lack of being, as you call it (over-dramatic), resulted in the closure of hundreds of thousands of acres of so called "public" land to the use of motorized vehicles. Now all of the ATV enthusiasts, myself included, are standing around wondering what the hell happened. So you keep thinking that more legislation is going to prevent stupid people from doing stupid things if you like, but in the case of atv's it has not stopped idiots from tearing up the forests but it has succeeded in slowly but surely doing away with law abiding folk's rights to go out and enjoy themselves. Over-dramatic? Yah.