If the current guitar heyday keeps going, I think we might see an end (or at least decrease) in snobbery. I think fewer people will care about the name on the headstock. At least that's my guess. Right now, we're in a wonderful time to be guitar players - though that's a bit diminished with the increased shipping costs. For now, and probably only while the shipping is as expensive as it is now, a $170 guitar is now $230 - or more. As current stock is sold, the prices are rising to adjust to the massive increase in shipping costs. Funny enough, just a few years ago all the major rags were saying that guitar was dead. There were hundreds, if not thousands, of articles claiming that the guitar was dead and that its popularity was decreasing so rapidly that it'd be about the end of the guitar market. Then came the lock downs and it seems that everyone and their kid brother bought at least one guitar. So, in the next year or three, I'd expect to see the used market values plummet as tons of wall ornament guitars get sold en masse. And I plan on buying a bunch of 'em. I have a vast collection of guitars, like a shameful number of guitars. I might actually start a collection of cheap guitars - only keeping what's reasonably good. I also agree... With enough know-how, you can make many guitars playable. I've been playing for more than fifty years. I've done a lot of my own luthier work - and can do a setup that includes everything from reshaping the saddle for intonation to cutting a new nut. I can replace frets, level frets, polish frets, etc... If it's a working truss rod, I can probably make it fairly straight while under tension. If not, I can possibly steam the neck and straighten it that way. Also, these days they have a PLEK. There's no excuse to not have a damned near perfect guitar. Though, so far, Gibson is the only one to PLEK their guitars prior to retail. They kinda had to do so, as their reputation was declining rapidly and they were having a hard time selling $3800 guitars. Their CQ was in the shitter.