It's insane. No one can afford hobbies anymore. When I was growing up(late 90's early 00's when I was a late kid, early teen) a big deal was going to 'the hobby shop', where they had ya know, expensive as fuck hobby toys.
$600/$800/$1k+ nitrometh RC cars and trucks, electric cars and trucks, small to big as fuck scale planes or even god-damn jets, with working jet engines.
They'd have a whole fucking track and/or dirt track in the back of the store for weekend events/tournaments. They had dice, both loose, and in sets for the DnD crowd.
They had 'cheap' $2 balsa wood planes you could assemble and fly, and some even had propeller with rubber band power. Feels like all those stores are just gone. What family can both afford to have a kid AND support some $600 RC car hobby?
No one has time for that stuff, nor can they afford the even climbing cost of the hobby so the stores have just slowly disappeared. It's fucking sad.