To be fair, if it was a bit easier to get a cheap, simple car insured at 17/18/19 then there wouldn't be as much fronting.
The model that these insurance companies use to calculate premiums is an utter joke.
I'm not condoning fronting in any way mind, but I have a certain amount of sympathy for those who do.
I can see why people front; the proportiante costs at that age are high. But it's the cost at the end of the say and they are a business; when they don't make profits then the market will only get smaller and that's a bad thing.
I'm currently on my fourth policy at over a grand a year and my second at £1500 a year; hurts but it would hurt a lot more if I came unstuck