In a single stroke they wiped out centuries of Christian monasticism. There's definitely a model and a place for monasticism in Christianity and in Western Buddhism. It's not going to be popular. It never was popular, even during the golden age of Zen. It doesn't need to be.
Zen training is very demanding.
Monasticism is the core of this practice tradition. It shows that it's possible to do this all-out. They maintain the archive of sanity and serve the Sangha. The rest of our Sangha comes into the monastery to recreate themselves and then brings their practice back out into the world. There is an interdependent relationship between lay practice and monastic practice.