Is it just that people are no longer using PBP anymore, or is the whole electronic hobby grinding to a halt ?

This forum used to be buzzing a few years back, to the point that it was hard to keep up with the posts. These days you can visit three days apart and still no new posts (PBP2.6 forum)

I'm guessing that with the event of arduino, and all the other new "development" systems programming PICs in basic is now old hat ?