i know what you mean mate.
I toil in every saturday more or less on pitches that are as flat as the Hume Highway, on outfields that are cut like glass, against batsmen who are covered in more protective gear than a soldier at war.
And it is one of the more injury prone sporting practices going. Not so much in terms of short term injuries (tears, broken bones - although there is a few of them around from fast bowling) but more in terms of long term injuries (stress fractures, constant soreness etc,.)
cricket administrators have to seriously look at the way cricket is going, because young guys coming into the game are just not gonna wanna be quick bowlers.
The game is being played in such a way that bowlers (especially quick bowlers) are just becoming cannon fodder to the batsmen.
especially in one dayers, where you can't bowl bouncers, the white ball loses swing very quickly (although i've only played with a white ball on a couple of occasions), and a ball more than 18 inches outside the off stump is a wide, and you can't bowl down leg. Basically you have to constantly keep the ball in an area where the batsmen knows where its going and get just lean onto the front foot and swing with a 95% assurance they are gonna get a clean hit at the ball.
And every single rule change that comes into cricket is to help the batsmen - helmets (although i agree this was a good one), ropes around boundaries (don't disagree so much with the ones that are 3-4 metres in from the boundary, but sometimes they come 20 or more metres in), front foot no ball rule, no mankadding, bouncer laws etc,. etc,. And in the one day comp in Australia its a free hit after you bowl a no ball.
If it keeps going the way it is, soon there'll be no real world class bowlers and it will just become a bore with batsmen belting away at medium pace trundlers - even in test cricket.