Retro is "in" these days. I've noticed more and more friends, and friends of friends expressing interest in owning an EM. Their price point makes them way more financially tangible than later games, especially if it'd be their first or only game.

I think the reason that EMs remain so cheap or hard to sell is because they're not very friendly looking "under the hood," and they somehow gained a reputation as being unreliable (which is undeserved, imho).

When discussing lack of game depth or rules as a driving reason, I think that for the casual player, even with games with deep rules, they'll still aimlessly flip the ball around without knowing what to really shoot for.