Gaggle
You really have a complex about other people and how they view you.
The boating fraternity are, like it or not, members of a 'club' administered by BW. There are rules, every society has them. To stay as a member of any club you have to comply with the rules. Those that don't find that their membership will not be renewed.
Take motoring, owning a motor car is not a right it's a privilege. It is a legal requirement that your car has TAX, MOT and insurance; also that you have a valid licence to drive on the public road. If you fail to provide these documents when asked then the courts will take away the privilege.
What is so different about boating? Obtaining a licence is dependent on the boater complying with the rules. Failure to do so could result in the licence being refused.
It's all very well saying "I want to do it my way", but one has to accept the inevitability of the bailiffs turning up one day and dropping ones boat on a low loader.
There are some people that are 'superior' (as you put it) simply because they know the rules of the 'club and are prepared to abide by them, as opposed to those who know the rules and do everything in their power to avoid them. In the UK we all drive on the left hand side of the road. It's one of the 'rules'. What mayhem would be caused if some decided that they would drive on the right.
Boating is really no different. Everyone should abide by the rules (it's a condition of the licence). That way everyone knows what to expect from each other. Your independence and personal style comes from how you paint your boat and how the fit out is done. By all means we can remonstrate with BW about the composition of the rules, but until they are changed the rules is the rules.
A CCer playing by the rules will be on a progressive journey around the system. If someone is not on a progressive journey around the system he isn't a CCer, it really is as simple as that. Other terms are 'invented' to categorise them. Be it bridge hoppers, towpath trash or more accurately fraudsters.
The minimum requirement of a CCer is to cruise at least once every 14 days to the next parish, given that that could be achieved in about two hours he should only need to travel for 52 hours a year. At the end of the year one can reasonably be expect him to be 52 hours cruising time from his starting point (very simplistic but you get my drift). Sitting on the same spot for six months means that the declaration he made when he bought his licence, that he was going to cruise the system, was fraudulent. Fraud is a criminal offence. So yes maybe some people are thought of as second class citizens, but merely because they are in effect 'criminals'.