Just before the craziness of 2020, I sold or gifted almost all my modern cards.

Unfortunately, I liquidated my vintage cards many years ago. Not my brightest moment.

Now, I am 100% collecting vintage items.

As for Topps, I would consider 2022 the end even if Fanatics purchases Topps.

As stated above, it won't be the same.

I said a group of people collectively decided to raise the prices of products. Products began rising in price in the early 2000s. No one born in the late 80s, 90s, or 2000s could have made those decisions, but the people who did make the decision to raise pricing were the same people who grew up paying nickels and dimes for cards. Those things did happen. It's not an attack on a generation.

Yes, but it's coincidental - and not because they were or were not of any certain generation. Had people born later been in the same position, it stands to reason they would have made the same or similar decisions based on the current situation. Correlation v. causation. That's my only point. You can blame whoever you like.