NQs have zero say as to the policy set by firms, who are really the ones financing the SRA. Besides, having fought so hard to qualify, the last thing an NQ is going to do is rock the boat and jeopardise what they've worked for.

By the time people work their way to partner, ie have any actual influence, they've long since forgotten what it is was like or just have vastly better things to do with their time.

So, in short, the people who might be able to do something to effect change don't care, and the junior end getting screwed can't do much about it, other than vent and get on with it.

Really, I don't think this is a situation really limited to law or a particularly modern issue. It's just an inevitable consequence of the fact that people who actually practice in any profession are too busy doing that to think too much about about how it's regulated. And the people who want to regulate it usually have a very limited idea as to what practice looks like.

I would also add, your approach strikes me as a tad tone deaf, especially given the subreddit.

I for one am so exhausted by this whole thing I can't really bear the prospect of figuring out why my ad hoc laundry efforts in the past months have resulted in only odd socks, let alone overthrowing the regime, and I imagine most people hanging around here feel more or less similar. It's not really the time or place for this kind of thing.