Please don't demean others by assuming we all want progress in private flying.
And please don't demean private flying by holding it in the dark ages. If you want to be stuck in the dark ages sucking oil and experiencing the nostalgia of a bye gone age then it is your call.
However the reason we have dwindling pilot numbers, so few IR's etc is the modern nintendo generation have no sense of nostalga and all they see is old !!!!can aircraft with equipment that should have been sent to the skip decades ago.
I use my aircraft as a practical tool for getting me around Europe for business and leisure and flying over 400hrs a year I get to do a lot of instrument approaches.
The ADF IS OK as situational awareness tool, but I also have much better tools in my cockpit for the job and will not lament it's loss other than for listening to Virgin 1215, but even that has been replaced with my iPod....