It’s even worse, general and experimental aviation is hated by the FAA itself. They would rather only commercial aircraft exist so they don’t have to deal with the silly people with their toy planes. The fact that all classes of medical certificates have mostly the same requirements for both general aviation and airline transport pilots (no prescriptions outside of the dozen they are okay with, among other things) shows that the FAA sees genav as just a pathway to get to ATP. I guess the 1500 hour rule indirectly keeps hobbyist pilots flying.