>>but they all had an epiphany - I think we just killed the car-camping paradigm.<<

That's pretty much the way it happened for me. Once I started, it was decades before I got back to car camping again... and that was just for the beach, or to introduce people to camping.

Funny how that works for people- newbies, by and large, feel secure sleeping in campgounds, and are afraid of being out in real wilderness at night. I feel just the opposite, much more vulnerable in a campground (with it's assorted yahoos), and much safer out where nobody knows where I am.