All these point restriction plans do is try and make up for a lack of game. That is the problem that needs to be attacked.
Yes, not enough animals for the number of hunters. The main issue is that we have general OTC seasons and a million hunters. Take off the APR and every buck with nubs would get shot. APR slows down the harvest. Only real solution is to limit the number of tags. Rip the band aid off already and get it over with.
Actually dealing with the opposite in my "neck of the woods" for farmland deer. I will see plenty of deer a year, but not enough hunters because the surrounding local landowners no longer allow hunters. Don't know how much my point matters because i hunt private, but it has been that way for the past few years and hasn't really improved the quality of bucks. The loss of access into private, as well as shrinking public lands, in my opinion is really just pushing everyone who doesn't have the same privilege into limited space and putting a lot of pressure and stress onto those herds.
