It's frustrating, isn't it?
The people most inconvenienced by all the onerous restrictions are the already responsible ones who read and respect the laws and always choose to operate legally, whereas the idiots who created the consequences of all these regulations happily continue to be idiots.
I used to do all my practice flights and experimenting with my Phantom in our local high school football field. Either late in the evening after football practice and baseball games were finished and the dog-walkers were gone, or in the middle of winter when absolutely nobody else was around. No one ever bothered me or complained about me flying there.
It's certainly no more dangerous to conduct the same flights there again today, compared to back when I first made these videos.
DJI Phantom-1 Instructional Videos
Unfortunately, that football field is just
within the outer fringe of the Ottawa (YOW) control zone, and the Phantom is ruled as being too heavy to be allowed to operate there. I only ever fly my Mavic Mini now, and only in remote areas where I'm certain I won't offend anyone.