From what I've experienced in the big leagues we're facing a coordinated effort to force us into smaller and smaller segments of airspace. This will be heavily focused on the recreational side. The commercial side will be facing some onerous and very expensive equipment certification standards. Knowledge and testing standards will be implemented for recreational, and some form of remote ID will be forced on anyone not flying at a sanctioned AMA site. How they get around to enforcing all that is anyone's guess, but the remote ID aspect will end up built into drones else they won't be allowed for import here. DJI has spent a lot of money and effort in promoting their stuff ADS-B In, NFZ's, telemetry tracking, and remote ID as the base standard for airspace management but our aerospace and avionics developers and manufacturers will not let that happen. To roll with a DJI license concept would take far too much money out of their pockets.
What we need to do is what we've always needed to do, form an organization of similar minded operators, both recreational and commercial, in order to generate a voice containing enough voters to be recognized by our legislators. Common cause if you will, but devoid of brand and model discourse to maintain focus. That organizational group would need to add more efforts to educating newbies and the misinformed about regulations and the long term and full spectrum of the effects of ignoring them, while creating more favorable press releases for the general media. If anyone has been paying attention, big commercial and government operated drones are always good in the press, recreational drones are always bad. There's a reason the media has been reporting as they have been.
We need sensible rules, not rules that bestow all favor and airspace to big spenders like Boeing, Lockheed, General Atomics, Amazon, and Google that in turn lock us out through prohibitive cost factors. We understand what needs to be done better than most might think. We only need to make it happen.