Last time we were there, a Denny's just off the strip was packed to the gills with regular folks like my wife and I looking for a reasonably priced breakfast.
We never stayed in Vegas again. If we flew in after that, we'd take the airport shuttle to the car rental center and drive to Mesquite, where their casinos still offer $10 stake dinners and $60 per night hotel rooms. They basically screwed the pooch with their greed.
It used to be fun to see the show girls and cowboys on the strip. They have basically been replaced with prostitutes and shemale metrosexuals with pony tails. Human dumpster diving if you catch my drift.
I forgot all about Mesquite.
You are right.