When I worked in a shop (years back now when in grad school), I pitched the same case to the house manager.  Put down some volume of oil on the lanes..pleaded with him.  Put down more oil and proshop sales will increase.  The shot was so rediculously dry that most everyone threw either OLD urethane or early 90s reactive.  A little more oil takes those pieces out of play, and although you may get some grumbles, once they see a person scoring with "new" equipment, they would all convert...  It went on a deaf ear....  The bone dry shot fit the house manager 150 rpm rev rate quite nicely...

All house shots are very dry outside 10 board.  Agree that many seniors don't have the speed to play in this area.  However most house shots have plenty of oil inside 10.  If they don't seem to, it is more likely the length of the buff rather than the volume of oil.  I use to see houses all the time that had plenty of oil, but only buffed about 35 feet.  This is a killer for slow ball speed. 

Bottom line, the THS is the closest thing to giving everyone something as long as the buff is at least 40 feet.  Want dry move out.  Want oil move in.   Seniors with slower ball speed should be throwing shiny tame pearls, or even polished urethane, because the strong shelled balls will roll out for them even on a long buff.     

Saturday night was my first time bowling in league since 1998. It is a Saturday night, every other week, mixed league. Looking at our league sheet, I made a rough estimation that the league average for men is around 155-160. I was shocked to see a lot of bowlers with poor form throwing monster hooks.  Back in the day you had to work to develop a good hook. Now anyone can throw a hook thanks to the dry conditions and new balls. The sad part is many of them will never average higher than 160 because their poor form makes spare shooting harder than calculus.

Do you guys think average bowlers were better before reactive technology?

Saturday night was my first time bowling in league since 1998. It is a Saturday night, every other week, mixed league. Looking at our league sheet, I made a rough estimation that the league average for men is around 155-160. I was shocked to see a lot of bowlers with poor form throwing monster hooks.  Back in the day you had to work to develop a good hook. Now anyone can throw a hook thanks to the dry conditions and new balls. The sad part is many of them will never average higher than 160 because their poor form makes spare shooting harder than calculus.

Do you guys think average bowlers were better before reactive technology?

No. Average bowlers are just that...the difference between the top and the bottom just gets farther apart. Used to be the top and average might have been 25-40 pins.

Now, there is enough room between them to build a Walmart...

I find conditions pretty dry most places....or I guess i should say wet/ dry.  Luckily a couple years ago a friend turned me onto urethane.  When I started bowling after college the reactive stuff was just starting to come out, so I missed that whole era.  Switching to it has made my life quite a bit easier! 

Also the Hammer Arson Low Flare is nice with a similar motion.  Bowling is more fun for me now.  Pretty frustrated before having to stand in the left gutter and loft it halfway down the lane to hope it would stay right of the headpin.