I imagine GA follows something like a Pareto distribution, with 10% of the pilots involved in 90% of the incidents. That 10% would get retrained or weeded out in the airlines,
and the rest get much more consistency on all the rest of the stuff you mention.
So yeah, there really isn't any one "the safety of general aviation." It's a huge spectrum.
Another challenge is reporting. The FAA knows exactly how many flights and how many hours the airlines did last year, but GA activity is much harder to gauge. It's hard to figure out what safety looks like when you don't have a good figure for the denominator.
