Yeah, I think this is the point. It's a "legal high" of sorts and a dangerous one. That flying feeling is addictive. Some are lucky enough to grow out of it, some aren't.
Family owns acreage less than a mile from the recent Wimberley smallplane crash. As far as "statistical anomolies" are concered [+neighbors motorcycle accident] I'm not presently up for much risk-taking rn.
They could have just-as-easily landed on the barn I built, a decade ago – years of work.
Pilot's stupidity (flying in such known weather conditions, inexperienced) could have killed more than just he & his pickleball passengers.
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The part where I start getting upset is when others' lives are put into risk (particularly when: no fault of their own, bystanders).