New season work?  

HAA does get very boring no matter what you invent to push it off.  One real problem is that boredom can affect your attitude towards safe flight operations, and may actually be an element of high HAA accident rates.

Personally I think when the weather minimums were put up beyond IFR and IFR alternate minimum values pilots were able to breathe a little easier, but, the, management started the work arounds.  Not sure if they ever really got any place with them.