They are definitely not “dying”.
They are just shrinking in number to fit their niche. But that niche is not going anywhere, and nothing else besides fat bikes appear to be able to fill that niche. If anyone wants to make a bet about whether fat bikes are being sold 10 years from now, I’ll happily take it.
Plenty of high quality tires being made. Maxxis makes very good tires and are far and above the most popular and in-demand tire brand among mountain bikers these days, regardless of what the OP thinks about them. And for good reason. 45NRTH are also excellent quality. Anyome who has owned a pair would know this. All the analysis about who makes who's tires and who owns what is all pretty much irrelevant to anything, here..
Don’t read too much into the Fat section on BF. One might think MTB in general is dead from the traffic you see on that board. There are just better places than BF for those things.
Last edited by Kapusta; 07-28-22 at 07:30 AM.