Socker,
With respect I will disagree with a lot of your comments, here's why.
As you have stated you have only been going to angeles a short while and then only a few trips, all of your time has been through the devastating bar raid period, so basically you have no idea what angeles was before the worst period of its history.
Many guys here including me have been visiting angeles for two decades with trips every few weeks to angeles, Let me tell you straight your claims of angeles has never had stunners is just not true, going back angeles bars were full of stunners, stunners that were naked in the bars, stunners that would dish out blow jobs for the price of a very cheap drink, sometimes even for free, body shot games, lesbian shows in bar, hell if you had been in angeles when it was possible to hold private parties in the bars where 5/6 guys were outnumbered by 50 girls then you could claim a good time could be had in angeles.
Most Guys want access to plenty of the type of girls they are seeking (normally the top girls) with little to no bullshit to go with getting sex from said girls, guys do not want to have to get the timing right, troll countless bars to even see a girl they like and then have to mainly take rejection because the girls main focus is not to barfine but to earn her money other ways, that's just fact, does not matter how we try to sugar coat it it remains what it is.
Your claims of guys are not having a good time because they are not willing to spend or want bargain basement goods is simply not true, many here have claimed to have spent up to $85 us on a short time girl, I myself have paid $100 per hour for russian top girls in Moscow and left very happy indeed, so money is no excuse, most will pay handsomely for what they want but want what they want not some low grade substitute.
As for neon lights on the strip, its all still there its just that most bar owners cannot afford the electric bill to turn it on because apart from the few Koreans in town westerers have voted with their feet for other easier ways of fucking pinays or just gone to another easier destination.