Agree. A lifetime worth of our memories are in Kodachrome, not only slides tucked on the top shelves, but in our mind also. I could never accept Velvia on emotional plane. It felt strange, cold and wrong, because my mind was callibrated to Kodachrome. When finally moved to digital I spent an awful lot of time until I managed to tweak my Nikon digital SLR to make pictures in Kodachrome hues.
It is also worth noting that the whole world watched America in Kodachrome - demise of Kodak is an apt metaphor for what ails America today.
You know, if the dopes at Kodak would have started selling digital cameras that reproduced the Kodachrome look, they would be still in business. Maybe a digital Kodachrome camera/printer system that could have saved them.
From reading some of the others on this thread that had dealt with Kodaks corporate structure, I bet the idea never crossed their minds.