Those places listed in the article were older, needed upgrading and, most importantly, were in high traffic areas that would support those kinds of efforts, expenditures and the types of clientele they are looking for. For us those areas aren't where we go nor want to go - kind of like going to a place that has a huge Jellystone sitting out there but there are 2 dozen other smaller, nicer (to an everyday person) places in the area. What those places are is really a "citification" of a country experience for city folks.
As far as RV parks in general, yes, they are changing as well but not like that particularly. Due to daily costs increasing so much most have raised rates. Some are expanding, some are increasing the number of sites within the confines of the original boundaries....whatever seems to work for them where they are. On this trip we abandoned a park we had stayed at for several years due to their attempts (new owners) to capitalize on the explosion of RVrs and what amounted to "ripping folks off" to me. Another has basically completely automated their reservations, check in, check out. You never see or talk to a person. Yet another, near where we stay here in FL, was sold a couple of weeks ago. It was a golf and RV resort - not fancy but had the basics w/clubhouse about 30 golf carts etc. It was purchased by an investment firm from Tennessee. Drove by going to Tallahassee Sunday and there was a big sign that said "Golf Course Closed" on it. No telling what their plans are for it but I'm going to be watching it.
Change is inevitable as the "old timers"
know. Will all the RV parks become the ritzy, glitzy, citified "camping experiences" cited in the article? I doubt it (certainly hope not). Will they get more congested and expensive? I figure so.
I told DW at the outset of Covid and watching the explosion in RVs that I should buy a tract of land and make an RV park....I decided against that as I'm too old and the pressure I used to thrive on now makes me sleepy. But in our neck of the woods those RV parks are being built daily but not for a "camping" experience. They are to house workers, those displaced from homes that can't afford a s&b etc. They clear the land, throw down 20-30 acres of gravel, put in the utilities and call it an RV park; I'm afraid that may be more and more of what the options become as we move into the future.