I disagee. Snowboarding started when skiing was boring and on a decline. Snowboarding gave us shapes and parks thus making skiing fun again.
Yeah.
Snowboarding's 2 "roots" are skateboarding and surfing.
It also solved several problems:
1- Ski boots back then (a lot still are even today) were heavy, clunky, hard to walk in, hard to get in and out of and looked goofy.
2- Yard sales (less gear to fly away, bindings are fixed)
3- Skiing powder