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I hate to feed into the negativity and depression, but here goes:

This is another example of the Old Guard dying off, and no one rising up to replace him.

What young Japanese priest is rising up to fill the shoes of Fr. Nariai?

Too many elderly members (many of whom are pioneers) of the Trad movement are dying without any substantial, de-facto replacement that one could point to.

The one exception: we had Archbishop Lefebvre, then the 4 bishops, then Bishop Williamson, and when he passes to his blissful reward, we'll have the other 2 bishops and finally (at least) Bp. Zendejas who is substantially younger than the other 2. So that's one category we're "good to go" in.

But so many other categories...

I know of one Traditional chapel that was materially helped in the beginning by one elderly couple -- who were pioneers of the original Trad movement in the 70's as well. They both died (within months of each other) and frankly, there is no equivalent at the chapel today. The priest is making do, but to this day they don't have a e-mail chapel bulletin anymore. And if it weren't for the fact the chapel is fully equipped (and equipment lasts a long time!), they'd be in trouble there as well.

On the positive side --
If it's true we don't have a Tom Nelson publishing Trad Catholic books, the million dollar question is: Does 2020 need a TAN Books? Do people read books anymore? or do we need eBooks and digitized versions of public-domain pre-VaticanII books instead?

If ChantCD.com is still in business in 10 years, it will mostly be selling downloadable MP3s of chant and hymns, a few rare, hardcore Trad books, and eBook versions of such books. My son(s) will never have to learn how to hand-make the CDs, crease and slice cardstock for the CD inserts, etc. because CDs are going obsolete as we speak. So are magazines and newspapers. Books are almost in the same boat.

The Antichrist will censor Catholic truth and the true Bible in digital books. The only way to preserve the truth is in hardcopy transcribed directly from earlier texts in harcopy.

Impossible.

Only eBooks with "digital rights management" can be shut off, disabled, etc.
Many eBooks are DRM-free so as long as you have the file, you can read it whenever you want, on whatever device you want. Only a computer virus or hard drive crash could take it away from you (and it would be your fault in that case, for failing to keep a backup of the files)

That having been said, I admit that books are special. There's something about that physical connection with a book. It's so much easier to concentrate on the contents. eBooks are NOT 100% superior to a physical book. There are better in some ways, worse in some ways.

MP3s, however, are 100% better IN EVERY WAY than a CD of music. MP3s can be sorted into folders, copied/pasted if you want to hear one song multiple times in a playlist, easily make playlists, combine your favorite songs from X CDs, they take up less space, you can store hundreds of CDs on your PC, just a mouse-click away, complete random access, much easier to browse, no having to dig out physical CDs and insert them in your player, etc.

There are improvements like

CD --> DVD --> Blu-ray DVD
2GB RAM ---> 8 GB RAM ---> 32 GB RAM
100 MB Hard drive --> 1 TB hard drive --> 4 TB hard drive

Which are simply better in every way -- where the older technology is rendered completely obsolete and has no upside.

Phone books have no upside over Googling "Plumber (my city) (my state)"
Multi-day, regular Internet outages just aren't a thing in a 1st-world country like America. And in a collapse scenario or catastrophe, I don't think we'll need a phone book either :)