The July 17 closure will clear the way for major renovations and construction on the property, which is to reopen in 2027 as the Hard Rock Las Vegas, featuring a hotel tower in the shape of a guitar.
It does feel kinda weird when one of those old casinos actually closes.
But when I was visiting my brother last, he said one cool thing he likes about Vegas is that it's always new. Whereas places like New York, Chicago, St. Louis are old cities with a lot of old architecture, which can be beautiful, Las Vegas is like constantly changing it up so there's almost always something new.
Except I will justify this as enshittification because: online sports betting, gacha mobile games, and online slots have taken over for free entertainment, ridiculously cheap high quality food, and a tourism entertainment, because the prior is cheaper to maintain, quicker to deploy, and more easily accessible to the average user, and the latter required more upkeep, more American jobs, and wasn't as obscenely profitable (somehow....)
So yes, this is a pretty text book example of the Internets enshittification of a market.
I'm interested to see how I'm just using this as "I want to bitch about something", because I honestly disliked Vegas and have never been a big gambler (though every time I have, I've walked away with a profit, but I don't think I'll tell you my strategy, 100% guaranteed low stakes winnings, because your energy is too damn negative, and I don't wish you any happiness in life, besides that I hope you have a wonderful Friday.)
In this thread, people so excited to point at "the person using the word wrong" they haven't considered that the Internet is really fucking Vegas up right now, and the thousands of wage slaves that find their honest lively-hood there.