The way I see it, these are all the results of a maturing industry where all the
ever-stiffening competition drives both affiliates & programs to new levels...
The smartest will survive and the rest will fail - it's just how capitalism works...
always pushing businesses to produce more, faster & better.
Seen from the programs' side, the hunt for new affiliates will probably always continue.
Both for the few quality "whales" as well as the quantitative "noobs" - this is the
affiliate model, THE reason adult programs online have had the success they've had.
Traffic is king, and there's still no way a program could bring in as much traffic on
it's own as it will with either a very large and/or a very active affiliate-base.
Nothing beats the workforce of qualitative &/ quantitative affiliate-base... yet.
If it ever changes, it will be because of SE technology restructuring.