I think you guys might be onto some thing for the first yearor so but I think using your own logic I don't see these guys sticking around long once they find out that you can't just climb an oak tree and expect to shoot a deer. They are not the driven.
The one's that are serious ones will soon find that lugging that cumbersome heave X bow is not that much fun and will buy a compound ,and the rest will do what many do now,they will bitch and whine that there are no deer.
Honestly I think your giving the lazy, back at camp by ten bunch to much credit, they can't kill deer now and they won't be able to with a X bow.