It's like the internet. I grew up in the late 70s and 80s when the internet was a volume of 10 year old encyclopedias on the bookshelf. The information was still there, you just went about obtaining it a different way. People who were born and raised post internet, get the info they want WAY faster and arguably easier. Gadgets like game cameras are paralleling this mindset. Old school scouting will still get you the info you want, it's just harder, slower, and at times the info is incomplete.

It's a double edged sword for me. I'm embracing the lazy scouter mentality, and like to use them to have an idea of what might be encountered quick and easy (and to get my young son excited about what we have to hunt), but I feel the years and years of hard-earned woodcraft and hunting/scouting skills slipping away each year. Use it or lose it, right?