Like many niche vehicles, they had actually targeted it towards the Gen X crowd with the features and utility. Some took it for that, but it actually found a home with many 40 and over adults that liked the styling and didn’t need 4 fully functional doors.
It was the stepchild to the CR-V and got the great reliability. But it had the same anemic engine (barely passable in the CR-V) while giving up the aero function of the CR-V, so it was even worse on the highway in high speed situations.
They sure could do a modern version with all the great improvements seen in the current CR-V (and pending one as well). I just don’t see it happening, unfortunately. Seems when companies take a step into the “wild side” and get burned with lackluster sales (Element, Aztek, Juke, etc.) they are hesitant to head that way in the future.