Without any further context that is an extremely premature conclusion to draw based on a single 3-5 hour schedule change. There are plenty of routes that experience large schedule changes like this, especially if they are low frequency as is (which a handful of midwest locations tend to be). That is the difference on a once a day route between a 7am departure getting shifted to 10am or vice versa. Or a RON for an aircraft being shifted to the hub from the outstation. Even if this is a reduction in service to that particular midwest city (which we don't know that it is, given no further context), without seeing what they're actually doing with the equipment, that doesn't give any indication about overall "2023 growth and recession-proofdness". A reduction in frequency could be counteracted by a change in equipment to still maintain capacity, how do we know it's not two devil chariot frequencies (or any regional aircraft) being replaced by a mainline aircraft? Again, very premature to draw your conclusion based on the post you were replying to. It sounds like since "other options are even worse" this is just an already poorly served market and isn't a good indication for whether there is growth system wide as a whole. Schedule changes are often to redeploy aircraft/schedules to where the growth actually is.