100% this. Our council just announced that they'll be doing a council fee that matches the national fee so now before one single activity, it is $170 to be a scout. As far as I can see, this gets you zero fun. My family has two scouts and two leaders. We're looking at $470 before a single camping trip, rank patch, anything.  Maybe the small expense was once a draw (When my boys started in 2018, it was $33 for national, $42 pack fee and that wasn't even very long ago!) but that's in the past. 

I will challenge this one.  If your scout is active, scouting has significant cost.  If your scout and you are both involved, it's very significant.  IMHO when both scout and parent are active in scouts, the cost is at least the same as most sports; if not more.

BSA using the legal system to deter other organizations from using the terms Scouts and Scouting.

The Eagle Scout brand is still very strong.

We've talked about that document before here.   This document was from 2011/2012. In 2019, its paid consultant/author was stating such incorrect things as: "100% of cases over the last 50 years have been reported to law enforcement."  That turned into a big, credibility damaging "research" miss and mess that led to an embarrassing Congressional apology, and pretty much discredited it. You can be generous if you like, but that 2011 document was more press release and PR strategy than a serious attempt to contribute anything useful and heartfelt to the public CSA discussion. BSA has never done that. https://michiganscouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/BSA-Press-Conference-Prepared-Remarks_04.24.19.pdf