In reply to MountainsAreBetterThanOffices:
MABTO, your are advancing proposals for something you really don't understand. Here's my take, written from a U.S. perspective that is already a little more tolerant of bolts than the U.K.
The presence of risk and the way in which it is confronted lies at the heart of what is now referred to as traditional climbing. Sport climbing has banished risk, at least the forms of risk inherent in trad climbing, in favor of other aspects of climbing, and as the sport climbing mentality spreads, it becomes increasingly difficult to even communicate about the distinctions between the genres.
Consider a trad climb with a risky section. It's been done many times, but now there is a contingent of climbers who want to put a bolt there. Why? Because that part of the climb is risky! More people could enjoy it if there was a bolt, and the community has a "right" to the route.
But the risk is exactly why the trad climbers don't want the bolt there. Trad climbers see controlling the risk through the use of gear that may or may not be bomber and the practice of self-control under pressure as one of the intrinsic challenges of the sport, so putting in that bolt destroys the essence of the climb for the trad climber.
Saying that risk is intrinsic to trad climbing does not mean that trad climbers pursue arbitrary risks. Trad climbing isn't a collection of stunts like how many cars you can jump your motorcycle over. The risks of trad climbing are the ones inherent in the environment: difficulty, yes, but also unknown territory ahead with uncertain opportunities for pro. This is why when you say "just don't clip the bolt" you are utterly clueless. The bolt modifies the environment and makes a former intrinsic risk into a stupid stunt. In any case, you aren't proposing a path to learning trad at all, you are proposing to eliminate trad so as to make the rock more "accessible."
Personally, I, like many climbers, have room in my heart (if not in my decomposing tendons) for both genres, trad and sport. My major objection is that the adherents of one approach, either out of ignorance as in your case, or else out of a self-centered sense of entitlement, have a way of deciding they have the right to alter or appropriate rock for their preferred variant of the activity. Although there are excesses on both sides, and ambiguous terrain which both camps might plausibly claim as their own, I think the bulk of the transgressions are committed by those who are only too willing to drill.
Trad climbing is not for everyone, and there is no reason why it should be. If you don't appreciate the approach to neutralizing risk that is part of the genre, then it isn't for you. That said, people the world over have been learning to climb trad for more than a century without having to have bolted routes. It's not as if we don't know, in the most intricate and now well-documented detail, how to go about doing this with a high degree of safety and success.