Oh, I dunno. I've been hearing about the death of AMA for decades now. If you go back and read magazines from the Forties, they say the same thing.
I'm not that worried.
There are SOME duds over at AMA, and some very great people...just like any other organization...but the end result, though sometimes it takes time for a burearocracy of any kind to come around to the right answer, is USUALLY something that satisfies a majority of the constituency. It's not always the answer that pleases an accomplished, vocal minority like competition scale modellers, or turbine flyers, and sometimes, we have to live with that.
Again, I can't help but wonder if it was presented for a vote, if Joe Ugly Stick would just say "Those guys can afford their OWN insurance".