You sound like a CrossFit convert trying to convince his old gym partners that the slow-lift routines are dead! Traitor son of a bitch. Fuck you and the Reebok symbol you rode in on!
Seriously though, to boil RP feds down to their most mediocre element is a bit unfair. The strongest writers used RP to develop their characters and tell a story, the same way angle feds do (but in a different way). I love a good old school "Kiss my ass, I'm better!" type RP, but those get stale and typically the best people had to be better than that. When you get to the point where that's what you're doing (like you admittedly did with latter days Ryan and I def felt myself doing with Castor), the character has reached its end. From a fed perspective, I'm def biased but I would pit the best stories/cards of NFW, EPW, CSWA, etc. against the best of angle feds, any day of the week. I am a big believer that any fed can be popular at any time, as long as it is run the right way, the content is consistent, and there are people who are looking to participate in the hobby. Strict Angle people can be convinced to join a good RP fed and vice versa, it's happened a million times. Competent fed ownership is the rare commodity. The forums are dead all around. There is one semi-maybe active RP fed and what, two angle feds? If RP feds are dead, Angle is on life support.
Besides, we all know the only difference between RP and Angle feds is that one group of owners is honest about the fact that RP doesn't decide shit.
