The bigest challenge in any photography club is apathy among the greater part of the membership. Clubs get accused of a lot of things all of which are easily fixable by even a small number of committed members and new members joining with new ideas.
Likewise, I’d agree with all his comments except on the age issue which I dont think holds true here in my experience. Also don’t like the “camera club tag” either I much prefer photographic group. I have taken more positives than negatives from my years in camera clubs and always recommend them to young photographers for a couple of years at least as a great way of learning the craft.