More Words, Deeper Hole

I suppose, but HPL is actually still heavily in the public eye, so I can see people wanting to both recognize his flaws and then deal with them. JWC's fading away; I'm pretty sure that the generation after mine (which is, alas, getting larger every day) either doesn't know who he is, or knows him only as "some guy who was an editor".

Heinlein's still pretty big, but I don't think Campbell's much thought ABOUT any more except by the old guard and the small, but admittedly vocal, group that thinks they've inherited the mantle or at least must burn those memorial fires; the latter group I of course have some contact with since a large number of them are at Baen.

But I think the era of JWC being anything more than a historic curiosity, whose talent was mainly in picking good authors and helping them bring out the stuff that made them good (within limits), is pretty much over.