You just answered yourself,they have an earlier season where all muzzleloaders are legal.
I think you can expect the late season to stay the way it is. At the most you may see more accessories become legal. (peep sights, etc) but not a change in the type of ML firearm.

It would only be "behind the times" if they stayed with only 1 season which only allowed flintlocks. But since there is a season wherepercussion and inlinesarelegal.........
(Think of it this way. Do you allow anything but bows in archery season? Heck, why not allow crossbows, laser sights, electronic tracking devices, etc, etc, etc, it is archery stuff.)

If you absolutly want to harvest a buck with an inline, use it during rifle season, there are no laws against using it then.


...... And I have to say, there is something nice about having a "primitive only" flintlock season. Nice to think that everybody out in the woods is using some old-style smoke poles. If I were to change anything I would only ask that they allowed some better sights and/or peep sights, and maybe included either percussion and maybe also wheel-locks n' match-locks (the locks used before the flint). But keep modern inlines and others out of the one season and in the other.