It seems to me that everyone thus far has ignored the fact that if we all stopped buying ARF's, they would go away problems and all.

I know that not everyone is willing to build a model, but I for one would rather build one than buy one. Of course, building and building right are two different things, but if you take the time to build it, I would think that the chances of it being done better than the ARF's in question is fairly high.