I've used arkansas stones for decades
I think they've been declared obsolete by the congress of country club hunters, as being too inexpensive a way to keep knives sharp.
Some hunters no longer have the right to shapened knives, broadheads and turkey dinner knives, inexpensively. Otherwise, they are banned from the Country Club hunter association.
"A hunter and his money are soon parted", seems to be the common goal of modern hunters today.