Using that logic Bill substitute “work station “ instead of arranger and you will see that workstation sales have also peaked 10 years ago and are now on the decline as more and more people use controllers and dedicated software.
But folks are still buying workstations in good numbers .
I guess what we need to do is determine what we mean by dying .....arrangers in my view are far from dying .
Arrangers are mainly bought by old fogies who as they die out so will the arranger, (The same happened to the electronic organ market from which arrangers came) remaining just as a niche market. (Just like the electronic organ)
It’s just evolution really, whatever replaces the arranger will follow the same fate, and their owners will also be saying “I have been hearing about the death of (whatever replaces the arranger) for the last 15 years” and then proceed to bury their head in the sand. (Just as a lot of arranger players are doing today, and electronic organ players did back in the day)
Bill