Yeah, that will be a shame. Of course, I’ve been hearing about this for forty years at least.
There are pics of the expanding light domes from population centers done years ago with pics comparing them to modern images. The expansion of light domes are frightening.
Cities like LA, Phoenix, Vegas, Dallas etc. are immense and growing. They can now be seen hundreds of miles away, reaching 50 degrees up from the horizon. The closer one gets, the more the skies are completely washed out.
Many regions of America which used to be considered dark sky sites, no longer exist.