[Sticky] Is the enthusiast community dying?

Posted by: @hkbasser

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@blitzdr I love that you draw lines.  I am an incredibly opinionated person and it is difficult to sway my beliefs.  In today’s day and age,  I’d go so far to say I am anti-Shimano.  The way they kicked Iyoken out of their team and basically removed the Bantam line was the dumbest move to Shimano bass fishing ever.  No Ken Iyobe, no Shimano Bass, and that’s that, no questions or objections.  Imagine letting the face of your company’s Bass division go.  Shimano has given up on the bass market, forget all the stuff happening here in NA, doesn’t mean anything, a bunch of overly marked up mid-products I don’t care for at all.  And the partnership with loomis on top of that ruins everything.  

Hmmm...am I to infer that you are saying Shimano is going to ax the entire Bantam line?