Ming Hua Yuan's Chen Sheng-tsai maintains that "folk opera going beyond temple festivals is as inevitable as the earlier trend away from the indoor stage and towards the outdoor stage," and Hsiao Hsi Yuan's executive secretary Hsu Kuo-liang is well aware that "the territory of temple performance will steadily shrink along with declining audiences, even disappear altogether, because the younger generation won't go to temples to watch."
因此，儘管明華園的老五陳勝在以為「歌仔戲走出廟會，就如當年由內台走向外台，是不可避免的事。」而小西園的執行秘書許國良也深知「廟會演出版圖，將隨老觀眾凋零而逐漸萎縮，甚至消失，因為年輕一代將不再逐寺廟而看。」