I don't think digital is dying, but I definitely think that it is stagnant.
I am curious as to the business decision behind not making the Carrera digital track compatible to run analog cars. A simple switch between analog and digital would be all it would require. There are instructions out there to do this yourself. You wouldn't get all of the bells and whistles when running digital, but at least racers wouldn't have to chip all of their old cars. Because that seems to be a big hold-up for people who have lots of analog cars. They don't want to chip all of those cars and they don't want to have 2 tracks or to not be able to use their analog cars. Then those racers can convert to digital and start slowly buying just digital cars and make the transition. I know this wouldn't do anything for wood racers, but it seems like it would make it easier to convert plastic track analog racers.