Easy technology is supplemented by longer shafts, rendering improvement obsolete, and maintaining an artificial ceiling of difficulty on the average golfer who doesn’t know better.
Driver technology allows a 4’ surface at the very bottom f the face, and we can all put the gap wedge back in our bag because we can use the trusty 1 wood on the green. Clubhouses everywhere are marred by ballmarks from golfers who putt with a driver and miss their birdie putt by 1 inch on the 18th green.
People slowly come around to the fact that “standard length, loft, and lie” top of the line clubs can easily be assembled in your basement with a dremmel, some tape, solvent, epoxy, and parts.
Stronger shafts and epoxies allow hosels shrink down to almost nothing, allowing the lowest possible center of gravity on the clubhead