Nobody said that kids are clamoring for plans. This is just your version of what was said, your personal reality.

I scratch build on average 5 or 6 planes a year and have a closet full of mail order plans. None from the AMA. Why? It's a matter of principle with me, I've never felt that I should have to pay "street value" for AMA plans. I would rather support RCM or some independent merchant.
There is absolutely no way to know.....only the Almighty knows how many would be builders have been discouraged by the cost of the plans.
To pretend to know the unknowable is just not done by true Masters of Reality. [8D]