It is very difficult to improve your playing of any instrument if the places you try and play at are full of intolerant persons with exclusive attitudes and a very high opinion of their own playing.
Bodrhan in particular seems to come in for a lot of stick (He he)
But I reckon the most annoying thing I get when I play in public is th amount of normal memebers of the public who come over to congratulate the Bodrhanii on their playing and generally ignoring the vast majority of any session who are all musically superior players of "melody" instruments.