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Slightly echoing Dominic
So there's only about 300 of us that aren't irritated?
When abolition of title protection was promoted by the RIBA before the Act, (without member survey), the membership made it pretty clear it was wanted by the majority.
The ARB, as created, is an independent registration body, that the RIBA could never have been having done that.
What we have had since then, it seems, is a sustained campaign by the RIBA, assisted by tall trees members, and some in the press, to take control of registration. It isn't in the public interest, since the RIBA (not the membership) doesn't seem to have accepted protection of title, or promoted protection of function, or done much else positive to do with the profession.

If anything needs to be done, it is not abolition of the ARB.