It is only a matter of time before decent pilots make mistakes. So what you are saying is that the risk-taking pilots are closing the "window of unregulated flying" a little bit faster than you'd like to see. Eventually, that window will be closed nonetheless.
If decent pilots make unavoidable mistakes, then they will make unavoidable mistakes when its regulated too?
If a decent pilot is following the existing rules/recommendations, then they won't be flying over people, or at least anyone other than themselves, so when something goes wrong, they are extremely unlikely to hurt anyone.
There is no way to avoid all and any risks - you just can't have 100% safety and reliability. What you could do is push for increasing the safety (at the cost of something else, obviously). What you're looking for is preventing avoidable mistakes, and minimizing damage if Something Really Bad happens.
This is very relevant to your comment. "In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error, also known as the correspondence bias or attribution effect, is the tendency for people to place an undue emphasis on internal characteristics (personality) to explain someone else's behavior in a given situation rather than considering the situation's external factors."
It's not just that. It happens always when a particular thing becomes of interest to the general population. Suddenly, domain-geeks are being swamped by normals who have little interest or experience in the domain itself, and they make stupid mistakes that sometimes end up being corrected with law.
Happened to programming too.
I've only been a professional programmer for 2 years now. For my own edification, what events or laws or shifts are you referring to?
The fact that he deviated out of his defined zone then back again, several times probably means this wasn't some malfunction of the device.
He was risking it for better shots.
If he was in his zone, then malfunctioned then it would not have crashed there.