I've just bought an AA S510 and although I love it and its an amazing bit of kit its definitely soul less compared to my springers. My first rifle was an HW35 twenty seven years ago when I was 15 and I've always loved them. I think as far as newcomers to the airgun world goes and the fact that PCP's dominate the market I think there will always be a percentage of people young or old that will demand the challenge of a springer. There's always pros and cons with everything in life and the self sufficiency and ease of maintenance of a springer is always going to be appealing.