Not really. Modern inlines just bring the sport to the world of fast or highly processed food. In the old days people actually had to cook their food. Nowadays one can go to the grocery store and buy a complete meal in a box, go home stick it in the microwave for 3 minutes and have a meal to eat. Same deal with modern inlines, you buy a kit, insert tab A into slot B, and 5 minutes later you are shooting. Just like home cooked versus instant food, the old way tastes better but takes more skill and time to prepare.

Another analogy is two people stnding on top of a mountain. person number 1 climbed hte mountain while person number 2 was dropped there from a helicoptor. Both can enjoy the view, but the man who climbed actually accomplished something nd probably enjoys the accomplishment more. The end of the journey isn't always the most important, but how you get there.

I don't care which route people take, but to say that an old flintlock that can be fired using a knapped piece of stone, a ball cast by the shooter, and even possibly homemade gunpowder, is somehow inferior to a modern inline that can pretty much only fire stuff that has to be made by someone else, is quite off.