I think traditional archery may not so much surpass hi-tech archery in popularity as survive it.
Personally, I am interested in archery from a historical standpoint, and the farther away I get from traditional wooden bows and arrows with real feathers for fletching and simple steel broad heads, the farther I am from what interested me about it in the first place.
Wheras I’m interested in archery because of its history, those high tech users aren’t really interested in archery in itself so much as hunting another season – in my view, they’re the same type of people as those who hunt “black powder” season with super modern guns with scopes and the whole shebang, which to me completely defies the whole purpose of doing it in the first place – which would be to experience hunting the way my ancestors did.
As the number of hunters wanes (we have seen a steep decline for several decades now) the number of bow hunters will also decrease, but the smaller subset of people into traditional archery will, I think, remain.
