OK, done.

Some of the new and planned professionally built trail will help us showcase what we have and what the potential for new trail in our community can accomplish. We need to sell it.

As a club, are we moving away from the grass roots hand cut trails in favor of professionally built? 

I prefer natural trails and features.

But mountain bike trail building with a focus on and optimized for riding mountain bikes. 

Machine, hand cut or a combination of the two is less important.

Sometimes man made features are necessary (aka bridges or erosion mitigation). But I prefer that they are kept to a minimum, unless one is specifically building a trail to appeal to such riders. And I think such features should have bypasses.

Your posts gave me a good chuckle since you're comparing a town of 35,000 with a bike park to a city of 859,000 with 210 parks and facilities some of which have existing mountain bike trails, 49 miles of greenways with more on the way, and a nationally recognized outdoor recreation center.  Mecklenburg Parks and Recs has done their job very well of providing facilities for the masses.  Some people just have zero appreciation of what has been made available.  I think the THTB have done an amazing job to bring trails to publicly held lands and they are continuing to build relationships with land managers for more additions.  I do not know where you originated but as a native Charlottean, I invite you to move back if you are so unhappy here.  I am sure everything is better there and they probably miss you.  Charlotte was fine before you arrived and will be so long after you are gone.