Yep, about a million more would be a good start.
As it works out, the light sport license itself didn't provide me any real benefit. That's why I'm still a PPL student though I've met all the requirements for an LS ticket..well, actually I took the PPL knowledge test which probably doesn't count but you get the idea. I could get the LS cert within a week if I chose to do so, but on the PPL front I've got more cross countries to do.
It was the accessibility in a sense. The combination of aircraft and training costs to do what I wanted to do, which was daytime sightseeing flights in moderately remote (but not true wilderness) areas.
There are quite a few "advanced ultralights" e.g. the Challenger II, E-Z Flyer, Chinook, etc that are very inexpensive ($18K USD with engine), quick to build (350 hours to air) and very appealing to me. For a total of maybe $25,000 including plane and training you can have a two-seat fun plane that can be trailered around to interesting sights, flown off short fields, and do basic (slow) cross country flights. That's about what my first sailboat cost by the time I was done.
Beyond that, there is a growing selection of fun factory-built airplanes in the $80K range. If I didn't enjoy the building process I'd say my -8A will have a labor cost of over $100K... which is to say that if I spent the build time working, I'd be able to pay for a pre-built LSA faster than I'll have my homebuilt -8A.
As for why no PPL...I was avoiding it because I saw aviation as too expensive to justify. The image "outsiders" see is $500,000 and up planes... and security gates everywhere. Where I grew up the two nearest airports were the USMC air station and a major (C) airport that was very visitor-unfriendly.