My as new Phantom 3 Pro lays unused and little airtime - for some if not all the problems you wrote of above....
Being a Pom in Australia sometimes adds a downside - from the witless aviation law self proclaimed experts after reading one totally uneducated new report or seen on TV - in their attutude to what I was doing. These days I build quads with no camera's and fly them where there are no people.
But I can see why we have problems. About 3 weeks back...its Sunday Morning and a loud knock on the door - Police I thought!! - I opened the door to find a young girl about 7 or 8 yrs old who blurted out - "can you go into your back garden and see if you can find a drone....." I looked across the road a car parked but nobody inside. I asked is your mum or dad with you? Yes they are going asking at all the houses. She found no drone. Later the dad arrived and told me he had just got this little drone for him and the kids to play with. Seem he took it up higher than the signal strength could cope with and he lost it. From where he said his house was, it must have flown at least 300 metres before landing/crashing - as it was found later in the garden of the house opposite us. I just ponder the "wot ifs" What if it had landed on a kid playing or an animal or gone through a window or...or.... as it was, they got their drone back and are presumably flying with little regard to any aviation regulations or concern for other peoples safety...
