Where did he get the material for his article? off here?
Most of that is logical conclusions. It is a 'luxury hobby' that we all want to do spending as little money as possible. Flying abroad is cheap and i would have said easy, except we now have T5. It costs little more to go to Tenerife for a weekend than it does to go to portland for a weekend.
And don't say anything is cheap - it devalues the product
(p.s. I haven't read the article - this is based on Marks summary and half a bottle of red)