I have a few dozen Leupold scopes that seem to work fine with the minimal stress that I put on them.
They are all set and forget scopes, so as long as they hold their zero they do what I need them to do.
Maybe Leupold just needs to determine which market niches they can successfully compete in and stop spending money trying to compete where the competition is more competent. If they go out of business, some other company will attempt to fill the void. The strong and agile survive while the weak and incompetent fail. Capitalism 101.
Remember that not too long ago Chrysler had a division called Plymouth, Ford had a division called Mercury and GM had divisions called Geo. Hummer, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Saturn. When times got tough the companies all retracted their product lines and cut those that weren't successful.
