The industry will change, morph, and appeal to different people for different reasons than in the past. That is simply the way of the world. One of the changes is that bikes and cars are much less about the love/hate relationship of drive/fix/drive than vehicles of my era were. That's partly because all vehicles are magnitudes of order more reliable than vehicles of eld, but also because they're just darned hard to take apart and work on, now. Even if you can figure out how get inside your engine, you're probably breaking about a hundred federal laws. That's good in general, but it also tends to make them come across more as appliances - big, rolling toasters - than as semi-faithful companions.
Lots of businesses are in flux. The taxi industry is running scared of Uber and similar business. Shopping malls are declining rapidly because it's just too easy to click a button on Amazon. CDs are going the way of the dodo bird; it'll be interesting to see if they totally collapse and disappear as fast as phonograph records did.
I began to realize, about 20 years ago, that restaurant chains have a life cycle. They pop up, peak, decline, and disappear. That cycle now moves much faster. The same is happening in other industries. This means a couple of things: (1) more and more, people are going to change careers several times during their working lives, and (2) successful "business owners" will be those who are opening a new business to ride the next trend, while being willing to fold the old business before it becomes a boat anchor. Successful employees will be people who are prepared to retool themselves every few years. Changes to the motorcycle industry simply reflect the reality of the world today.