So, if you are more correct and my wish is less likely (sad, but let’s just grant for argument’s sake that you are more correct)…
The last few places like this 8kun, and a few IRL backroad speakeasies… are left as a kind of pressure relief valve and intel gathering points? You are making the case that this is all back down to [false] hope and copium. Not saying you are wrong, but if true, this is all very sad, and dark