Perhaps there are some Open members who are indeed interested in these things. One has even so posted here.

Do you really expect that MA is going to cover only the building of scale models from kits or scratch? We all know that is your primary interest, and your disdain for anything not built from sticks is well known. It's quite unrealistic for you to expect an organization which serves the interests of a very wide and widening range of interests to cater only to yours. My guess is that there is a large and growing contingent that may groan at the magazine when they see what they consider to be yet another boring and wasteful article about a kit/scratch build of a 25% scale Waco.

In another thread that has recently been brought back to the surface you ask "What's Happened to My AMA?", and I think that's really the crux of what you are saying in this thread as well. The AMA that you knew 40 years ago really doesn't exist anymore. It's grown and changed. Such is the nature of life. The PRIMARY focus is no longer on stickbuilt aircraft as it was several decades ago. That such still exists is without question, though, and IMO it remains the foundation of the hobby. But it's no longer the primary focus and I don't believe that it ever will be again.

To me, the great thing about AMA is the breadth of activities, skills, equipment and technology that it embraces. If one has an interest in any sort of aviation one can find something in AMA that will hold their interests. What I don't understand is why some can't find enjoyment in that part of the hobby and AMA that holds their interest, and at the same time recognize and embrace that others find THEIR enjoyment in something different. The latter doesn't diminish the former.