Regrettably you are correct.
The site won’t survive unless it attracts new folks, especially younger ones.
Right now boomers are the financial resource keeping things afloat but as we well know that won’t continue forever. And you can tell from the reaction of the olders to anything the least bit unorthodox they don’t like or welcome any ideas that don’t fit their idea of a FR poster.
The reality is that FR used to have many real interesting and provocative folks, most whom have moved on. There are many reasons for this which will be saved for another day. But you are absolutely correct in your analysis.
I ignore the YOU NOOB comments. Those are merely unperceptive folks.
You have to know a little html to use this site. Yeah. Not user friendly for young folks. But that's a good thing. We are off the radar. Which is where we want to be.