YES! Tacticool as a trend is annoying! I have a ton of fun learning to be successful with and without gadgets. So, we can't discount what the precision rifle world has brought to riflemen and marksmanship. Rifleman are not tacticool, neither are hunters.
We need to keep preaching the end to tacticool! Keep preaching riflemanship and fun.
I just want to say that hunters can take a TON of information and learning that has come from precision rifle shooting, withoutthe tacticool. The luminaries in the arena are against the Tacticool, thankfully. They preach fundamentals more than anyone I have ever seen.
Notably, a Godfather and legend in precision rifle is Jacob from Rifles Only and his marksmanship started as a hunter and training hunters to shoot. It is shooting, after all.
Gadgets don't make a shooter, 100% truth. Shooters can make better shots with gadgets though... and without them too. Its about the fundamentals of marksmanship.
I know riflemen that actually carry LESS weight even with their new carbon fiber gizmos (including me). Many have left behind stuff traditional hunters still carry (including me). We are still hunters, you can say we are improving the shooting aspect of hunting. Heaven knows we need that after I have seen guts hanging out of deer a guy shot on the run at 50 yards...