I agree with the O.P. The new generation of fly angler's have bought right into marketing ploy's. Fish Skulls have made flies into jigs.....articulated flies have turned flies into conventional lures....... a 6wt. line is really an 8wt. line.....short rods were for B.A.S.S. legality even though fly tackle itself was illegal anyway. Pink rods, chartruese reels......