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A lot of that may be true but the camera business has been in great flux in the past 20 years. Except for pprofessionals (and some semis) and with the advent of higher and higher quality camera phones who are buying cameras and lenses these days? I do understand what you said but companies are going to look at their lineups in the far future and ascertain their viability. Maybe they see that they no longer want to compete w/ Canon for camera market. They may still make lenses.All cameras need lenses, and if you're going to R&D for the photo industry, it's not a far fetched idea to try to milk that investment by applying it to scopes. I think there's more competition in that space though and, while Nikon has great glass and tech there, they need to make up ground in other aspects of scope development and probably found it no longer a worthwhile investment.
All cameras need lenses to focus the light onto the sensor - that isn't going to change anytime soon. Hell, even your eyeball has an iris (aperture) and lens. Nikon has been R&D'ing lens technology for just over 100 years at this point...I think you'll be incorrect about Nikon leaving glass lenses items anytime soon (as even their medical devices use glass lenses).
That said, this stream is about their scope line. I see them as just streamlining their product line. I'm sure they'd like to sell a $1+M imaging machine than 20,000 scopes. Just sayin'.