Call me bitter, but most "outdoor" people these days are complete posers.
Hiking and camping should be painful and challenging, that's what makes it so great. It's an activity you do to challenge yourself and push yourself out of your comfort zone. You remove yourself from the comforts and conveniences of modern life, that includes things like infrastructure and civilization. So doing things like walking down a trail with 15 other people isn't or sleeping in a campground on a $500 mattress inside a giant $3000 tent isn't camping, that's a vacation.