How do you feel about WH Smith disappearing from the high street?

It’s one of the few high street stores I will miss, purely because it’s the only store I’ve found that does a decent selection of puzzle magazines. Everywhere else that does puzzles does crosswords, word searches, code breakers and sometimes sudoku and logic problems, but at one time Smiths did all those plus magazines for hanjie/tsunami, enigma, mosaic, skeleton, and a bunch of others. I haven’t seen the individual magazines in a few years, and suspect they’ve stopped doing them, but they still do Beyond Sudoku, which is a compilation of a couple dozen different puzzle types - the above plus battleships, kakuro, hashi, shikaku, futoshiki, slitherlink, domino and a whole lot more. It’s a small niche, one that I expect the vast majority of people don’t care or even know about, but one that isn’t served by any other store. On a personal level, I’ll miss it. On a social/philosophical level, a part of me finds it sad and slightly worrying every time I see another thing that stretches the brain disappearing. One puzzle magazine - even one store that sells puzzle magazines - isn’t going to make much of a difference to the world, but it does feel like a symptom of the gradual dumbing-down of things, in the same way that games getting so much easier is. I like seeing more options for fun-learning at more difficulty levels - I like inclusivity - but it does seem like more challenging stuff is being phased out to make way for less challenging stuff, and to me that’s a symptom of the way Britain - and English-speaking countries in general - don’t prioritise learning so much anymore. Not a cause. Our country isn’t stagnating because it doesn’t have enough puzzle magazines. But a symptom of the way we’re not growing anymore, just sort of rotting. It’s uncomfortable to even talk about; I feel like a pretentious old woman who hates change complaining about “kids these days”. I don’t mean to be. I like change and think kids these days are great. But I worry that they’re both overworked, and not stretched enough. Adults, too. On one level, I get it. Everyone’s exhausted, and daily life and keeping your head above water is enough of a challenge. I don’t blame anyone. Perhaps they’ll still be available on subscription. I prefer buying things when I feel like it, but subscription would be better than nothing.