I still see a future for arrangers...

Overhere in Holland they are actually still popular by the youth, as they get their basic musical education on keyboards these days..

Same goes in Asia, but there they use Organs in schools.

I still see a future for the arrangers if only the arranger will be able to evolve... something like a mix between Karma and an arranger. If the arrangers don't evolve they will extinct as goes with all species...

So Arrangers need to addapt to the youth, they need to be innovative, and the music stations descibed by bill are just a form of innovation. There could be an arranger in the package... there could be not.

But the basic idea of arranger : adding a band to your lead imstrument. that follows your chords is just to good to ever let die.