The brifter trend is natural, especially for novices. In that vein, I'm already seeing the "new" STI shifters and parts on CL and eBay, so the sprouting cable STI's are being sold more and for less. STI's are over 20 years old, so that has to impact the indexed/friction market to some degree.

I see more Campy aero posts than I used to, and when one of those or a carbon post is 2/3 the cost of the PITA NR post, it makes sense. Syncro stuff is very cheap, but 8-sp Ergo stuff seems to have evaporated, 9-sp Ergo was always scarce, and the earlier 10-sp Campy stuff is still very popular. Seems the prices of that are not coming down much.