Rare in National Park spaces. Besides, we are not a civilised nation and kinda proud of it too. 😆
... and large, dense plantations of Australian trees never existed naturally on Table Mountain. What do your metrics say of Ozzy trees vs endemic tree species? Reference to that research please.
... and that statement was in support of commercial logging, the keyword you tumbled onto is 'foresters'.
Remind where those visitors in the 1700s and 1800s were from (literally anywhere in Europe = trees and very, very green grasses), remind us how they understood the uniqueness and diversity of fynbos? Provide a reference to those quotes please.
And your Argument #4 really sums in up: there were no (or few, and then only in small pockets) trees back then. So why now, just for the squirrels and odd hiker/biker and to the detriment of the thousands of other species that would otherwise thrive in fynbos and its suitable soil conditions?
