"I invite you to address the points I raised rather than my character."

Umm, what points?  I just reread all the comments on this story.  Your only "point" is to blindly defer to the status quo as a good thing, ignore or belittle the numerous comments made to the effect that it's not, then become defensive when people question your motive for such a stance.  Considering that I'm NOT here to shill for Uber, I wonder whether you're simply arguing for the sake of arguing.  John Cleese and Michael Palin did that much better than you and I could, you know.  If you haven't noticed, there's a commenter on some of these stories who has been around the business for decades and has given plenty of hints of how Eric Musser's public statements may be hiding his true agenda on this issue.