They have been here before and they have managed to get over the hump... if we look back at their history, the times they've been sold, the mcarthy era...
(guitar nerd) they have been here before.. to me the main problem with gibson, or their biggest hurdle is its consumers. If gibson attempts to change a thing on their models people just hate on them as if they betrayed the gospel, so to me, what is probably going to happen is that gibson is going to go back to the 80's in quality for a while, after being sold to a questionable company and only after the current generation of buyers have moved on, they will come back with the same ridiculous pricing equivalent of that future time...