Kaparos will be eliminated by chabadskers when we start getting rid of metzitzah b'peh and our beards. Or maybe once we start drinking C"S.
Just ain't gonna happen.
Don't see why it needs to be fly by night. It's not by me.
Not necessarily. Women and children doing kapparos several days before Yom Kippur is a relatively new enactment by rabbonim. The minhag of doing it "b'ashmuros" was essentially eliminated for women.
Kapparos does not require a chicken. If things continue to get out of hand I can see it slowly phasing out.. first a p'sak that women and children should use money, and eventually...