I think one thing to take away from this incident is the fact that ALL of us, Pilots and Controllers alike, need to be using established reporting systems to report safety issues (or perceived safety issues).

For those of you who don't have intimate experience with the ASAP program, those reports do get read, and action does result from them. Same thing for NASA reports.

If all of a sudden two hundred pilots and forty controllers expressed their concerns that safety was being jeopardized by prioritizing flow and traffic volume over safe operations, it will correct the issue. (The last thing that any airline/FAA manager wants is a paper trail showing that they ignored direct input from end user operators about a safety issue).

Bottom line is this: Work with the system, but also work within the system. If you feel as a crewmember that something is unsafe, then take corrective actions (up to and including appropriate use of PIC authority). But also make every effort to affort reasonable consideration and advance notice to the other users of the system, including the controllers that are busting $@@ every day to get the job done.