You hit the nail on the head, Richard! Remember when the Confederate Air Force was still called the Confederate Air Force?! 😁
Your response reminds me of a chaplain I had in the Army in Germany. If we saluted him he'd flip us the bird!
I don't believe that the hobby is dying. Just look at the sheer number of companies putting out products these days! Those companies aren't going to do that if the hobby is going into it's death throes. As far as whether IPMS is dying, I can't really speak to that. All I will say is that if it does then we've got no one to blame but us and that's all I'll say about that (said in my Forrest Gump voice).