Geesh.

My opinion on the matter

On the side of the 'new photographers' I welcome them. It is entertaining for me to attempt to provide help and guidance to them. Hopefully they will catch on and improve. With that being said most get frustrated and fall to the wayside and end up selling the camera when they want a set of wheels. The true photogs will be born our of those newbs. So why worry about it?

Let them get their new cameras and sell them. Canon and Nikon still made their money and it let them know people still want to buy them so keep making them! There have been more times than I remember that producing high quality photos for a client or someone here or there has netted me some extra 'income'. You will shine above the 'competition' and I would hope that no one is just worried that someone is going to pass them. Having more and more subpar photogs just makes me wait and lust for photos from you that much more