Why the sudden need to attack Child?

He may have printed ballads from previous collections, but are those collections still in print? Saying "it's already been collected" is all well and good, but if the collections are out of print, and rare (Child is out of print but not rare), then it doesn't do practitioners of folk music a hell of a lot of good.

Do we think that NO collectors went out and collected because they were inspired by Child? NO compilers of subsequent compilations did what they did because they were inspired by Child? That's a pretty strong claim.

Alex