Well... I'm an old fart and fit the baby boomer returning to film in his early dottage in a serious way (while I still have functioning brain cells) and doing all the things I dreamt but didn't as a teenager. So Pioneer nails my profile. But that's among our age group and I'm not sure that's where it's at. High School's still teach film, and it sticks with a few. Brothers Wright? Take this past weekend where I did run into a young family where the dad said, "You can still get film?" Yep, and cameras and all the rest. They aren't cheap, but they are surely cheaper than they used to be. Then again, selling prices for good quality film gear seem to be running stronger, and have moved higher just since I got into this.
On my walk, I ran into another film shooter, and she was shooting a Canon and we had a nice chat. I admired her handy 35mm for its portability and 1st rate glass, and she in return drooled over my MF Rolleiflex 6008. I know a lot of young photographers. But frankly, most of the photographers out walking the part were digital. But overall, camera photographers were vastly outnumbered by iPhones, and I'd venture the future split between digital CAMERA photographers and film camera photographers may surprise many.
For now, most young photographers working in the field that I've met shoot digital exclusively. Film shooters tend to shoot for the fun, love, etc. of the process. That's true for me. And I like the output, too. Digital was never as much fun shooting... though it was fun. And the added steps in film just make my editing easier. But I didn't get into it for film per se, but simply becasue I didn't want to lay out the money for a very fine Leica M Monochrome for B&W after finding Fuji and Sony shooting just not my thing. Don't get me wrong, they are great cameras and I still have my Sony A7RII kit that mounts my Zeiss lenses (Loxia and Contax). Of course, over the years, I've spent well more than what a Leica Monochrome would have run but in smaller, more manageable bites collecting gear for shooting, developing and the rest. Photography isn't a cheap avocation... whether digital or film. But the costs in film only start with film... it's the cost of solving process problems that's forced upgrades or equipment I didn't expect. FWIW, if there's a series of dead-ends, I've probably been there BEFORE finding my current working solution. But at last I think I'm closing in on a prospective stable period with few gear changes. Ya!