Amateur Radio

That's fair, yeah important to make it clear what's available and what will do the job.

A lot of people have a buy once cry once mentality, which I do agree with in a lot of ways, but that's a hard sell.

RC cars is probably worse, because your equipment takes a literal beating. That's how it was in the fpv drone world, 100mph into a tree and you're done for the day, probably a hundred or two in damage, if you're lucky. So n in that world too I flew cheaper stuff, still fun, but still hurts to take a crash and destroy a $50 camera it vtx, etc.

That's where loaning equipment out comes into play. I loaned out drone stuff, to be used with me present and teaching. And that's what I try to do with ham radio, come hang out, we'll do a POTA or chase some DX. But I feel like a lot more people these days are losing social skills and don't want to hang out, or as evidenced in this thread they don't even want to use their voice to talk on the radio. There are digital options, but this complicates the lending/teaching/social aspect 🤷‍♂️

Again, I don't have the answers, it's a complicated problem in a changing world. But there sure are a lot of black and white opinions in here.