I do on the other hand worry much more about these LL following in AVS’s footsteps now days. We are in a transition phase (at least I hope) with allot of the existing LL on the way out really do to them trying to maximize their profits at our expense, and we are still waiting for some new guys to step up to the plate and replace them.
I agree about this with you Max. Ive also noticed alot of LL starteed making up twisted rules or just plainly rejecting perfectly regular sites. Even when they list you the traffic is nowhere near to what it used to be just a year ago. Basically you can make several new sites, get them listed with several LL and not make a dime. It's not encouraging.

Just for example... linkmeallover (and JUB in the first year of their existance) used to send me thousands and thousands of hits to a site, and this really did produce quite a nice number of signups. Today it's 100-300 hits and probably no signups at all.

I'm not optimistic regarding somebody new taking LL job in the manner it used to be though. I think everyone will have to build his own traffic with blogs, review sites etc... but what will happen when blogs become oldfashioned? :bigears: