While the best is yet to come, I'm not sure there's enough of a buying public left to appreciate it all as edition numbers are getting smaller and smaller and more and more people don't seem as interested in purchasing their 12th Spiderman or Wolverine statue (seemingly regardless of how nice the sculpture is).
The hobby needs new blood. Perhaps as the next generation of collectors come in, we'll have that rebound. If it doesn't, it just doesn't seem to pay for sculptors to hang around too long and they have to make a living, perhaps in another more lucrative line of work.
Many of us didn't foresee having stacks of undisplayed statues boxes sitting in the basement. Speaking for myself, I can't stand that.
I've looked over my collection and decided to move about 25 statues over the summer to make room for this "new crop of product" coming in as some of it is simply outstanding.
All this to say that I'm speaking in general terms, not for those who are addicted to the process.
JMO
Add to the misery kits and commissions and you could say that it's some collectors - not the hobby - that's hit bottom. 
