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I also agree with op I love movies, and I am young, so the whole experience of tuning a radio, snuggling up in a car, eating home cooked food, waiting for the sun to set, is super enjoyable. I also like camping too, so I'm guessing the people who like drive ins also love being outside
Used to go to one growing up. It was pretty fun, but ultimately an inferior experience to streaming it on my couch. >

Random people with headlights coming on, sound issues, trouble seeing the screen unless you are early enough to get super close (saw the latest Batman at one, first 20 minutes looked like just a black screen), people fuckin in their cars next to your family, having to walk through mud or dirt to get concessions if you want.
I think there are plenty of reasons why they are dying out, and you can get the few comforts they offer at home streaming the movie instead. >

Not unpopular!  I work at a drive in and agree, we need more!
I’ve been to destroyed ones…Derelict, long ago defiled and abandoned, it made me want to cry seeing the decrepit and decaying concession stand, partially collapsed… 😢
Please, we need more, people!   We must bring them back, before it’s too late!
But for outside food and beverage, you have to pay extra to bring them in >

how would a drive in regulate outside food?  Do they toss your car like Border Patrol on entry?  
My cities drive in - The Star Light - was torn down in 1992? after sitting empty beside I-5 for several years as the screens slowly collapsed.  The site is now the Little League fields >

They ask you at the entrance.   You buy a food pass for $10 there.   If you’re caught with outside food or beverage without a pass, you have the option to purchase the pass for double the normal price, or leave. >

I would U-turn and never return to the drive in.....  "You are fucking kidding me, right"?
Thats the entire fucking point?
Does someone actually shine a flashlight in your car during the movie and interrogate you about your food pass status?
I'll just hit the Cinemark with heated reclining seats and a full bar >

We had one in a few towns over but it's up for sale now. I'm glad I got to enjoy it while I could. >

We have one near me. The quaility sucks compared to conventual theaters. Would rather watch it at home than go to a drive in >

How old is OP?
I'm almost 50 and as a child I hated the drive in.  I remember having a meltdown in 1983 about going to the "real theater".  Instead of the drive in and eating popcorn mom popped at home with leftover chicken.  The crappy little speaker hanging in the window.   Watching the cartoon in the daylight.
The sad little playground at the drive in.
I loved going to The Holly and sitting in the giant reclining chairs with the ashtray in the arm as a child.  
(oh and in much of the country its cold and stormy enough a drive in is only open for 5 months of the year)
edit - and even in the 5 months you can be open you can only show movies from 8:45pm to close.   So maybe two showings a night and absolutely no matinees.  I remember our drive in added a 60? seat crappy indoor theater for matinees right before they closed