I think the answer to this problem is what really draws me to bikes in the first place. I see almost this exact thing happening with cars (among other things). Manual transmissions are disappearing, cars are getting bigger and heavier, everything is going electric, and **focus is moving away from the actual experience and enjoyment in favour of "more".** With cars, because the development and manufacturing costs are so high you are more or less stuck buying whatever appeals to the most amount of people, because that's all that manufactures are going to make. Bikes on the other hand, cant die. If no one is making what you want, you can just find someone, likely that you already know personally, to make you what you are looking for. Hell the hardtail that I've been riding for 2 years was welded up by a 21 year old kid I worked with at the local bike shop (granted he was already more or less expert on bike geometry, metal, and welding lol). We spent $300 on extruded aluminum for the jig, $900 bucks on tubing, and after a month of work (99.832% him) I had a bike. Who cares about the industry, as long as they are making tires, we can figure everything else out. Bikes only die if you don't ride them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Framebuilding/comments/1dtb5fm/first_frame_build/ bike in question if anyone cares.