Seems like mainly irrelevant waffle to me, and as usual they've got their hand out for more money. I'd like to see the sample size of the survey that concludes facilities refurbished more recently are getting their customers back faster - if it is small then the results may be a bit skewed and I think you'd need to control for other factors such as the demographic of their users.
He mentions climate change and inequality - obligatory these days - and while these may or may not be worthy causes I'm not convinced they are going to make much difference to recovering their pre-covid usage levels. Ultimately it's principally fear and uncertainty that are keeping people away, and I am not sure the genie can be put back into that bottle any time soon, even if the authorities wanted to. If they put in place more "safety" measures they will alienate a certain section of their customer base, people like me, and at the same time reduce their capacity because of limitations on number, and if they don't put in place "safety" measures they will not tempt the slightly fearful back.
And of course the leisure sector, like every other sector, never really challenged the narrative, just accepted it as inevitable. Of course it would probably not have made much difference, but it's hard to have too much sympathy with parties that didn't even put up a token resistance. Sports and leisure facilities were never forced to close in Sweden.