I'm not sure what to make of the new UAD "form". But coming from commercial, I never thought about an appraisal as form filling.
I think about everybody knows by now that the GSEs are planning on eventually turning into hyper-AVMs. They do get a lot of good information from SOME appraisers, and they probably weight appraisal reports by appraiser. They like accurate data and insights. In the end, they will do their own appraisals and eventually get all data from all MLS system - hard for me to say to what extent that already occurs. You are feeding the enemy with every report you send, and you are feeding your enemy with informative posts on forums.
If you were smart, you would definitely avoid GSE's and AMC's. You would even avoid Appraisal companies - unless you are part owner and on good terms with the team.
It's a dog-eat-dog world. You are a fool to trust anyone in appraisal - all you are going to get is an act of some sort or another. Appraisers are generally speaking back-stabbers or complete duds. I don't care who it is. Cindy Chance is quite possibly just another - Trojan Horse ( I could be wrong, but she doesn't even do appraisals as far I can see).
If you want a career ... well you need a good location to do appraisal ... somewhere out in the boonies with unique characteristics. I know some - I won't say to protect the appraisers there. But there are some good locations and I once turned one down - it really was not up my alley at my age.
Most of the easy-to-get assignments don't pay that well - and they are only good to get experience. The profession is in general only good for really technical people who can quickly set up a complex computer and information system and are extremely stubborn and innovative and willing to take on the risk.
It would be a lot smarter to get into construction or some other field.
Bill Gates recently said that the only 3 professions that will survive AI are Biology, Energy and Programming. Manufacturing implies that you have an end-product, fully specified, to produce. AI can handle that rather easily because nearly all the production components are available - they just need to be configured to produce a fully specified product in the most efficient manner. They can do that. Most work, such as accounting work and most appraisal tasks are already specified (my RCA method is based on mathematical proofs) and can be automated ... by anybody who can master the details behind the method). AI does replace much of the mundane work in programming - but can't survive beyond a certain point ... it needs a master to tell it when it is wrong or off track. It knows what it knows 98% of the time at best.
... just quick thoughts.