@madlex: Now we are talking! This is how I like a discussion to go.
In businesses with no customer to customer correlation, you can easily ditch the non-paying (if existing) or low revenue/high demand customers and save your efforts to the high paying ones. In businesses with very high customer to customer correlation, like multiplayer games, whether online game or a casino game, the business model depends on a critical mass of customers and may even have to pay some of them to provide "seed" for the paying ones to show up.
We both agree on the "large percentage of small rooms might struggle to stay in business if they lost their "I'd rather die than play shorthanded!" crowd" but I suspect we miscommunicated. In the US, outside Vegas, Texas, CA, and Florida, (correct me if I am missing some other regions) , there is no possibility for consolidation of poker rooms and I'd rather have a game to play than not. If Foxwoods and Mohegan close their poker rooms, I will have nowhere to play with the frequency I wand. Even now, I am unhappy that they don't run the rooms 24 hours like they did before the lockdown.
Right now, Friday 3pm, Foxwoods (9 handed) leads Mohegan (7 handed) with 28 to 11 tables. Mohegan used to be packed.
P.S. I am not that afraid of 8 handed. I am getting pumped for my first trip to Vegas in early July