Trade guilds against HIPs?

Entrenched interests always fight change – see Seth’s Blog – which may be why so many vested interests undermine Home Information Packss (apart from the fact that their implementation was, and remains, crap, of course!)
In addition, those who are merely competent will resist change, because it undermines their competence
However, I do find that a well-prepared HIP (with, for instance, official rather than personal search results) combined with a carefully completed comprehensive set of property information forms does enable a very swift transition to exchange-ready status – assuming there are no fundamental problems with the property or its title, of course – well-packaged rubbish is still rubbish