Too bad those 3 people will be the one's setting outdoor standards for the next 2 decades. As cool as trad climbing is and as "lame" as gym climbing might be, the skill and strength transfer sets up gymbies for crushing. You can't say the same for years and years of trad. Sorry.

Yeah, I agree, that 1 out of about every 50k people who step into a gym for the first time in any given year will eventually cross over and do remarkable trad climbing. These days cream rises through an enormously broad and shallow pyramidal body count compared to the old days. And for every one of those there are a couple of thousand hot, crushing sport climbers who can't make that particular crossing.