This new rule interpretation does not apply to SLSA's.
It applies only to experimentals that have an operating limitation prohibiting any operation that involves compensation or hire.
SLSA's are not experimentals and they do not have that operating limitation. In fact, if being maintained on a 100 hr inspection interval, they can be leased or rented by the hr.
E-LSA RV-12's are different because they are experimental and they do have the operating limitation that prohibits compensation or hire.
How will you ever get a bi annual flight review in a E-LSA or E-AB that you own, without compensating the individual that spends an hour on the ground with you and an hour in the air "refreshing" your memory on how to do emergency procedures, stall awareness, etc? What about the DPE if you own your own RV-12 that you are learning in? Nobody works for free.
My interpretation of "for Hire" is the individual pilot with skills that provides a service delivering you from point A to point B, or, another example would be commercial sight seeing tourist flights of the Grand Canyon. Or charter flights, or pilots for corporate jets.
The person that flys for fun, or as a hobby, or flies their immediate friends and family has to be able to learn how to fly. What they buy or rent to chose how to learn how to fly in, should be their choice, not the FAA. You want the government to tell you what you can or can't drive, or to take the bus instead, too?
Let's make all sports cars ( and a Van's does fly pretty sporty) reqs uire an exemption license to learn how to drive in, too, issued by your local DMV.
Seems ludicrous, to me, giving them such authority. Soon, you'll have to be an outlaw just to fly all Van's aircraft, when your biannual comes up, because you can't pay someone to teach you or test you, in your own plane, unless you and the instructor get an exemption.
Who is going to want to buy Van's airplane kits, with that kind of nonsense waiting for them at the end?