A foil article in the windsurfing news section states windsurfing is still in decline and on the brink of existence. Is that correct?

Youth windsurfing is one of the largest one design fleets in the sailing world, I have heard local retailers report growing sales in windsurfing gear. Windsurfers nearly always out number kites at my local which btw has a nick name of "kite beach". Doesn't feel like its on the brink.

Is this article just a beat up to sell foils or is the sport still on the decline

Interesting shot of what I believe to be circa 1983 Diamond Head. Australian superstar, Tom Luedecke KA-1 sailing for Tiga on a 1984 Neil Pryde Fully Battened being the latest sail at that time designed by Monty Spindler. To leeward is Eric Thieme another member of the Tiga team. How things have changed: Notice the high booms and much higher off the deck rigs since masts were mounted much farther forward and the sails were higher aspect and the draft was located differently as well. The sail being used by Tom was designed by Mike Waltze, Matt Schweitzer and Spindler who worked together developing the Neil Pryde wavesail design "Ultranova". That was claimed by some as the "first serious all-full-batten wave design". However both Simmer Style and Ezzy Sails (?) were producing fully battened sails around the same time as I recall.