The simple fact is that print media, and professional journalists in hobby fields, simply cannot compete with the somewhat unfortunate "democratization" of information distribution on the internet.
Never mind that most of it's repetitive me-too-me-too drivel, and that a lot of those presenting themselves as experts just flat aren't.
The lowest common denominator always seems to win out eventually in just about any human endeavor.
I personally won't miss Model Railroader if it's gone forever though...much as I hate to say it. Last time I picked up a current issue, it was just a shadow of what it was in the glory days, like all the hard-core hot-rod mags that got de-contented and dumbed-down to the point of being useless to a serious participant in the field.
The world is locked in a TLDR short-attention-span death spiral of intellectual laziness and incessant rebleating by the ignorant.
And most of 'em don't know anything better ever existed...or care.