Obviously the type of short nails routes I was talking about don't appeal to most people who love routes rather than boulder problems, but I wonder why they seem to be even less popular now than they were in the past.
Like Paul and Stubbs says, if you want to do hard moves it's usually way more fun and less faff to go bouldering IMO. As for why they used to be more popular: probably because they accounted for a greater proportion of what had been bolted.
FRFM has an 8b+ boulder at the start doesn't it? Although it's not 'hard' in the sense that getting through that part isn't the meat of the route.