The impression of late is that all we hear of is regulation.
+1. Although to be fair, the regulations are unchanged, it's just that there is a slight whiff of pedantry around the approach that has come into effect since technology gave the impression of absolute accuracy. Which simply isn't real, evidenced by the different figures spat out by AR, VM and others.
That said, I have seen still remnants of pragmatism, albeit in relation to AAA (which are not part of the AUK regulations). Let's not kid ourselves that GPS gives an accurate cumulative altitude figures, with climb being up to 10-20% out from a contour count. It's to the credit of the AAA man that he is prepared to be pragmatic in accepting tracks to determine AAA on GPS DIY events.
Such an approach is good for riders and good (I guess) for the AAA man and organiser. Of course it leads to anomolies (calendar events and non-DIY perms still require contour counts, so in theory a DIY ride could get allocated more AAA points than the non-DIY ride, despite doing the same route) and could distort things like the AAA championship at the margins. But these are consequences I'm personaly prepared to accept for a simple, flexible, sensible system.