You sound like one of my kids when they don't want to take ownership of something they say or do. Even if it was a person's first time on APC they could go back and pick pretty much any post that you have made and see what side of the fence you will fall on (management versus pilot). There is nothing wrong with that. We need pilots in management. However you need to just flat out own that. Saying that there are pretty big QOL gains in the TA'd sections for stuff that should have pretty much been done a long time ago sounds about like give me your profit sharing and we will give you hard pay rates. Oh what a win.