This doesn't surprise me at all. Just take a look around your local club field. What do you see? Mostly cheap foam. Or way overpriced foam planes. Not to mention all the stability systems everyone, I mean everyone pretty much flies anymore. Yes Pattern is rather unique. But I don't think the general pilots look at it like that anymore. At our field we are looked at as kind of a step child. Flying our pattern hinders or gets in the way of others. Funny how they can 3d fly just feet off the flight line though. Most now a days don't care about flying smooth and precise. That's painful.