I remember picking up the first of the new style " Electronics Lifestyle magazine" EAs.
"Blind Freddie" could see they had got it completely wrong.
The gushing, breathless editorial was followed by virtually nothing.
OK, if there had been normally unavailable background information about some of the junk they were touting, it might have found a niche market, but it was just readily available "general public" stuff.
Why would would anybody fork out their hard earned cash to read material they could pick up free at Harvey Norman, JB Hifi, or any of a dozen shops.
It was all in line with the "ideologically correct line" of the times, though.
Technical knowledge was regarded by the non-technical managements as "old hat", with stupid analogies like the one about "Buggy whip manufacturers" being spouted by the morons tasked with preparing us for a "Brave New World" which never eventuated.
Instead, things went off at tangents these "Social Engineers" never anticipated.
Anyway, they can all "Get off my lawn!".