Come on DiB....
You're totally comparing apples to oranges here. Fortunately, very few manned airplanes and/or helicopters fall out of the sky these days unlike our toy grade aircraft. That's because the operators are trained extensively in emergency procedures, they have certified components, they have multiple levels of redundancy built in, and they have very strict maintenance and inspection protocol. Also one important reason why "built up" areas are relatively safe from manned aircraft is because FAA REGULATIONS are in place to keep them at a fairly safe distance (500' - 1,000' depending on other criteria for the most part) in case of an emergency. Often times when a manned aircraft has a system failure the aircraft is able to "limp" to land/crash in an area that isn't heavily congested. That's not always the case but it's the norm more than not.
Our "toy grade aircraft" have no redundancy so when we experience a primary system failure we head off on a search and recovery mission... aka it falls like a rock to terra firma with ZERO control of speed or direction.
So please quit trying to compare our toy grade flying machines to manned aircraft because it's not similar in any way.
I do raise the actual items are even more so like comparing apples to cows.
But, we now have the same agency,mother FAA,masking us to follow the same rule or dames types of rules. If we violate one, the same investigators and agencies and powers will come down on is and can inflict serious fines and levy felony charges and maybe even jail times so, despite that our apples are toys, we are being held to cow level punishment,
Now, am I happily inventing more regulation, no, who'd want that. But, we,re off track here. I'm asking that DJI simple return to use the control we have over our craft as any other pilot has over his. We are the responsible party, ho can we be responsible when we hold a working controller in our hands showing a working craft as it heads (not necessary "limping" at all) to disaster and we are powerless to prevent it.
There are some degrees of redundancy in our craft, they are better than toys (ask some PC pilots if they fly jet turbine "toys") and they ar fairly well built. They are not raining out of the sky and I'm not even aware of anyone being seriously hurt by a fallen drone. Off course it's bound to happen, just as a plane crash was and is going to happen. You do your best to mitigate, but my is letting the most capability pilot do his best. Auto return home with obstacle avoidance is awesome! But how many of us have had it kick it, panic a little, then be so joyful as it returns enough to resume control. AND THEN WE RESUME CONTROL. it's not often we just dumbly stand there and let it co,r all the way home as it's perfectly safe and ready to fly.
So, back on topic. DJI, please remove any forced auto landing that cannot be controlled or canceled; let pilots be pilots, because the FAA assumes we are and I don't want to face court with my defense being; I couldn't do anything, the Chinese robo-pilot was in charge.