I was noticing a very similar forum trend, especially when toadinakilt solicited help and advice for his plan to go full-time kilted (FTK), and at least in my survey of the responses, Utilikilts and/or similar pocketed solid-color options didn't come up.

As the owner of 5 UKs and 5 tartan casuals (and more...) I find the pockets and 'less-ethnic' (my apologies in advance) look of the UKs to better suit my daily life. And because of that, the (apparently increasing) tartan topics hold little interest for me on XMTS these days.

Not that I'm going anywhere, and will continue to strongly recommend XMTS to every fella who says "I've been thinking of getting a kilt...", but I do find myself mentally filtering out topics with the words 'tartan,' 'hose,' 'flashes,' et cetera from my reading.

Glad XMTS is here, and hope it will be here for many years to come.