text: No, not at all. I'm advocating the conference system take the initiative to modernize and become efficient while there is still something to fix. To borrow your house analogy, modify the offending rooms before they decay the whole house. One of the first studies about restructuring our layers was done in the 1970's.  The thought then was that we didn't need that many layers because of "modern technology".  40 years later, we are still structured the same way in the era of the internet, virtual meetings, email, texting, etc.  If one of the roles of the conference layers is to disseminate information, then continuing a structure that was set up before the telephone was invented is really crazy.
  
  Our organizational structure has, and always will be voluntary. Yet, it is operated as if it is mandatory.  It is the job of the "company" to produce a product that the "customers" will pay for.  If they don't, they will continue to disintegrate while lamenting the lack of support.