Phrogge,
In the context of Bill's article, I would add this.  Many of us in the laity have lived the rapidly increasing pace of evolution in the job market.  The things I did fresh out of college, are no longer done.  Many of the jobs I once held no longer exist.  The telecom industry where I worked for 23 years doesn't look anything at all like it once did, to the point that both AT&T and Verizon are getting out of the landline business. After telecom, I went to law school, and found work in the oil and gas industry. The legal profession is rapidly changing, and the oil and gas industry has sure taken it's licks..

This is the world where I live, and to which I've had to adapt. For the priests, from what I can see,  housekeepers are (for the most part) a thing of the past, as are multi-priest parishes, etc., but what priests do remains pretty much the same. I think this too is part of that gap, and so it may be time to rethink nature of the priesthood. Change is needed and  natural...