I agree. Once you have what you need, it becomes hard to justify needing more. Jeff Cooper in his GunSite letter’s wrote that from 1900-2000 he saw only three innovations: take down lever action from Wild West Guns, Blaser straight pull bolt action rifle, and I forget the third. As for pistols, the removable FCU has been the only thing I’ve seen that really seems new. Don’t get me wrong. There are nice iterative improvements over time but if what you have is reliable you don’t NEED to get more. I’d course, the gun industry needs to sell more to stay in business so lots what is new is marketing hype. I have seen two and now on a third rotation of shotguns, lever actions, PCC, semi auto rifles being hyped as the new trend much in the same way kitchen and home styling changes. Part of why the introduce new calibers as it help sales. Sure, some of them do have a modest gain over tried and true but rarely enough to matter for the average user. I had all that I needed in the early 1990s and I could have happily lived with just half dozen or so firearms. Rest really has been excess and not sure if money well spent out se.