You are right, many archers want "easier" and because of this shoot the latest and greatest. The reason we archers feel so strongly about crosbows is the radical difference between adding a more advanced stabilizer, limb saver or fiber optic sight pin and allowing a whole new type of weapon. Easier may mean a cam or even a release when comparing a recurve to a compound .. but it surely doesn't mean a cocked and loaded shoulder fired weapon that allows for the use of magnified rifle type scopes. Some ask "where" is the line we stop at .. well the line I and many like me drew is when you take a bow, mount it on a stock and add a retained stand alone trigger mechanism and make a totally differnet weapon called a crossbow. When it's not a bow anymore, but a totally different weapon ... you've left archery and entered something else. Doesn't make it bad, and the effective ranges are similar if not identical, but they are different. Just as the well established precedent of ML and FireArm seasons are different, so are bows and crossbows.

Data .. a crossbow and a compound bow are different. You can argue till you're blue in the face that compunds are different from traditionals, which nobody here denies. Even easier to shoot, but that does not validate the argument that compunds and crossbows are so similar that we should all universally adopt crossbows into the accepted definition of archery. Even when OH allowed Crossbows during archery season, they still defined them as different weapons .. Longbows and Crossbows and the Longbows those being traditional and conventional have their own requirements and rules, and the Crossbow their own rules as well. When Arkansas allowed the use of Crossbows during archery season they still define the bows (Long, recurve and compund) and crossbows as different.