Listen to your selves I'm xx old I been in this hobby xx years and I been a builder for xx years .... What ARF and RTC, RTF have done is kept this Hobby/sport costs with in reason ... Yes U need plans and balsa and light ply to build but When have U last built Your own Motor Servers, Transmitters, Retracts, even your own connectors and extensions. With out a large costumer base The company's that make these types of necessary parts, we could not afford, what would be available. And they may not be available at any price.
Think about it, we/all Builders and non builders alike need a large base of users or none of us would be able to afford this hobby. So be happy that there a large number of people that don't need, want, even care to build Just be happy they even pay the club dues so your/our costs don't sky rocket. So let us not ask "Where have all the builders gone but Where are we going to get the Hobby/Sport BASE to support the H/S so those that choose to build are able to afford to. JMHO and U know about Opinions and AH's