The thing I've seen lately, Jerry, is guitarists using looper pedals to provide their own accompaniment, rather than arranger modules. This has GOT to have shrunk the market for arranger modules, I'm afraid...

It was pretty small in the first place. Any loss has got to make it that much harder to recoup the investment in making one...
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An arranger is just a tool. What matters is what you build with it..!