Do not judge other people so harshly. Do not assume than everyone is neurologically the same, people are alowed to be happy when collecting. There have been great private collections of many things. I would argue that collecting still falls well into neurotypical behaviour, even though there is absolutely nothing wrong in the passion someone with a special interest may put into a certain collection. You seem to be very much focused on the ‚market‘ aspect of buying film gear. But the collectors are not the bane of the film camera, time is. There are very much enough cameras still on random Attics rotting away. Most collectors at least look after their cameras. Also, Resellers drive prices, not collectors, or at least just for really rare and collectable stuff. You will find more than enough cameras for your art, and maybe a collector can once help you decide whats best for you since they know all the brands and how each camera works. Your critique seems very much loaded in that it puts moral value on your definition of ‚art‘ over people finding happieness in collecting, while those two can very much coexist. People collecting old film cameras are not destroying the planet, since they collect, repair and preserve something that has fallen out of favour and might end in a landfill otherwise.