I am with Chad all the way on keeping the weight limit. Listen to this guy, he is one of the best in the world in the F3A game and very dedicated to it. Pattern is obviously not for everyone, only for very very few. People do not participate in pattern simply because they do not want to! I have been around F3A since 1980 in two continents/three countries so I have seen a bit. F3A is like F1 cars. If you want no weight limit go to IMAC!
Today's society (world-wide) wants instant gratification with ARFs etc. which pattern is not. Personally I would like to reduce aircraft size (like pattern guru Dean Pappas) but it will be hard to go back to the old .61/10cc days now.