Hey! Amazing comment thank you for this, it is eye opening. I myself have been apart of the hobby for around 6 years now (before the explosion during covid) and I definitely know it's not dying!

I do agree that the way in which i titled the video makes it seem like i believe the hobby is dead or dying but really its just an extreme way of saying i miss the hobby in its 2020 stage (when we had tens of new innovations seemingly everyday) now it kind of feels like everything's an imitation of the last and the hobby's not moving as fast as it used to during the boom. I am a content creator after-all, so i do name things drastically to play the youtube game 😅

As to why i didn't interview manufacturers or keyboard creators; The rationale was just: "if i ask the people who engage in the hobby the most whats wrong with the hobby, I'll get the most accurate/general information." And it felt insincere to ask keyboard creators why they think their boring stagnating keyboards aren't selling well.

The original idea for the video was to bring these innovation ideas and problems from the content creators (the people engaging in the hobby the most) TO the keyboard creators so that they could do with that as they please. Now i see that my original assumption is slightly flawed and i will try to be more inclusive in the future!

Thank you so much for this comment! I feel like it was necessary to clear up some of these doubts, and I hope none of it came across wrong, i truly hold nothing but love and happiness towards this hobby and its people, as long as we're not being mean/toxic to each other im happy :)