It was originally intended as an AID for ANYONE giving instructions... Just some hints of what it would be nice to teach the student before you cut the buddy cord and let him off on his own.

Something to HELP people know when they might be reasonably safe to fly without assitance when there are other people within half a mile.

It wasn't intended to be a set of RULES.

It wasn't intended to be something to create arguments... it was intended to HELP people become better RC pilots.

unfortunately... with some people that like to pick things apart and want to justify thier being as unsafe as possible... you can't try to be helpful...

Even when it was a good idea in the first place (to post some basic guidelines for when the instructor should feel safe cutting the buddy cord..) its degenerated because some people can't handle an IDEA being presented even when the idea was something that was going to help a lot of people.