IMHO, we need:
- More smaller to medium size ski areas. Less resorts.
- More independent area operators. Fewer conglomerates.
- Greater access, closer to population centers, equal racial participation.
- Affordable ticket prices.
- Environmental protection.
- A greater safety culture.
I appreciate your vision, but almost everything you want is massively expensive, requires investor capital, years if not a decade of planning, government and municipal oversight and so will likely never happen. Environmental practices are already widely in place, especially at large resports. They can afford to do this, small independent can not always afford it. The economics of the rest are difficult if not impossible. Fixed up front costs are massive to build new. The land is also beyond expensive. Government regulations and insurance companies are major up front and ongoing holding costs. High cost infratructure in snow making and high speed lifts coupled with government regulations are beyond entry level. No one would show up if you don't have this. And if you miss weather for the year, you may just one more season away from out of business. Finally, the contract you sign on your lift ticket caps out your safety culture and that will never change due to insurance and state regulations on liability. If it did change your ticket price would go up even more or the resort would go out of business. Who would then put with all of this? Big resorts for people with money to spend in order for the numerous risks to be worth it. Thus why big resorts own things and will continue to gobble up and build. Actual skiing is not really profitable. Scale, anxilary stores, real estate and subscriptions/passes drives profitability.
Regarding new resorts coming on line. Possibly Utah next to Deer Valley in the next 2-5 years.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/everet...ew-billion-dollar-ski-resort/?sh=60b3bfdb7a72
There are other plans including Little Cottonwood improvements among others throughout the US. Read Vails' annual reports, they project MASSIVE influx of foreigners (Asia) in the coming 10-30 years as China becomes the worlds largest middle class. So old resorts will expand and new resorts are coming online as long as they can make snow.
All that said, even though the resorts aren't probably going to do it for you, you do have an option: find some friends and some back country.