Let's remember those amateur atronomers from all over the world on many different forums that have ditched astrophotography..............for a reason
Commonly, they had a guts full of spending large sums of money,many cold lonely nights and many unsucessful attempts to image a galaxy or nebula despite doing the right thing by the book and good advice from their forum members.
These are the people that have sold off their gear and gone back to OBSERVING which we have all had the pleasure of doing since we were kids.
Taking pictures of objects that have been photographed a million times by others seems pointless to them..............and rightfully so?
...............maybe??