Times change, and so must people.

Consider the state of another old-time hobby: amateur radio in the U.S.
Like player pianos, it was obsolesced by modern electronics insofar as
sheer practicality goes; but it could have hung on, had it not become
laden with old guys obsessed with their status.

Amateur radio in the U.S. insisted on retaining its onerous Morse code
requirement long after other nations.  Despite ever-weaker arguments
for its use in emergency, the real purpose for the requirement was to
keep the riff-raff out, e.g., younger people.

Well, it did.  And now amateur radio is essentially dead, lamented by
nobody.

Mark Kinsler
Lancaster, Ohio
http://www.mkinsler.com