I think we all know network RID is coming but we never stopped registration or transmit RID so there is nothing we can do about it at this point.
I cannot recollect exactly how it all went down day by day but I count small victories to be enough of an effort to get us where we are today. Without going into the details: No registration on small recreational drones, somewhat delayed RID couple of times, drones don't need to be on the network, etc. I do recall there was a lot of pushback on several big items and the FAA listened on some of those. But I agree with you there was no formal official pushback and that's the problem. As an activist, I don't consider these small efforts to be enough to stop the entire push or direction this is taking the drone community which is why I made the comment about the inevitable. Ideally, recreational hobby drones should have been completely left out of the equation, the lack of grandfathering is going to come back to bite us, and I believe the FPV world is still "in trouble." And we definitely should have put this federal vs state/local issue to bed and this piece is ultimate going to be the fundamental issue we face in the short term. These are just my opinions.
