While it is not so much available currently the cheap eastern European ammo was low cost enough at times to give reloading a run for its money. If one is just looking at the cost in money and time there have been times when some Wolf ammo would have been a good alternative to the investment in reloading.
If the caliber hadn't already been one I was casting and reloading for I would have bought disposable ammo myself. As it was there was some Red Star that was brass and boxer primed for a comparable price that I would buy over the disposable. Kids or grandkids without the prior investment to reload wouldn't have found that Red Star brass worth the extra cost over the disposable.
So many demands on our time and even more on the younger generations time. If they can afford the store bought and the price is good... return on investment for buying equipment and components just isn't that rapid. Especially when prices are as high as they are currently. I do keep an old C press around mounted to plywood to clamp on a table so anyone who shows an interest I can set up to load their own for the cost of some used dies.
Have to love those Pacific and Herter's .38 special used dies at the gun shows. Those dies and an old C press, plus a Lee primer seating die sets someone up for a $30 roll their own reloading setup. For people who can enjoy the methodical process of reloading making those first boxes is usually enough to set the hook.
At this time I do not really have family that I would think of leaving my reloading and casting equipment to. A grandson who may one of these days make good on his stated intention of learning how, and a daughter who might reload for a couple of revolvers. Lives in town and doesn't get to shoot much so little incentive to use living space for reloading.
Am I the only one that wonders how I would continue my hobby if wife and myself moved out of our house to some sort of senior apartment situation? I know folks that fear my garage because there are lead bars stacked there. Never mind if I was actually casting lead and reloading.
BTW - heard a fire chief on the news state that a fellow with 10k rounds of ammo could have caused death and mayhem to whole neighborhood in a fire. I guess the saami film of what happens to ammo in a fire never came up in his training. No barrel to build pressure = no velocity to bullet. Bounce off of drywall at 3 ft. without a barrel.