Its a shame but the trouble you have @Rebecca-86 is that a tenant will come along and say the exact same things as you and be a crushingly bad stressful experience.
I finally have a court order to get my property back. 3 years of living hell, tens and tens of thousands of pounds. no rent paid (on benefits) and I had to pay her more tens of thousands to leave as ongoing solicitor/barrister costs could have eclipsed this. I will update my thread below in a few weeks but its still very raw and numbing. I feel sick with it a lot of the time and my debts are huge, debts that didn’t exist before I took on a benefit tenant that was legal aided to the hilt.
Try fighting that juggernaut. My property is is a terrible state now, she has ripped the kitchen out, I had fraudulent invoices being demanded to be paid (it was her and her father) and then some.
If you look at the thread “first hand experience with DSS tenant” that tenant was ‘perfect’ and sold herself you will get a glimpse of why LL are so wary of benefit tenants.
First Hand Experience of Benefit Tenant
So the only way LL can add more protection to themselves is to raise the bar.
Maybe you can write to Shelter and the Govt to get them to make worthwhile changes rather than getting rid of S21 for example which leaves LL with even less security.