Some pretty fair country custom gun smiths will tell you that the newer CNC machined Remington 700 actions are far truer than the "good ones" from days gone-by. One told me that the need to completely "blue-print" a 700 action has largely passed.
If the old Remington goes away due to poor management, it will re-birth somewhere. The action design is too good and it has been too successful to scrap it completely.
