No Retrospective RHI

Surprise, surprise: There is to be no retrospective RHI and solar hot water early adopters will just have to be content with the "warm glow of being pioneers". I went ahead with my installation not expecting any such reward but it is somewhat galling to anticipate that others will not only be recipients of incentive payments but will also benefit from the scale economies that will be flowing through. It will not stop me making such investments in the future (and I will be going into solar PV soon which does benefit from FITs, so I'm not that much of a pioneer) but I wonder how many early adopters will be put off?