You are correct Daryl.
The point is that "modern muzzleloaders" exist only to help men "cheat the system"
Muzzleloading season had at it's root the concept of using old fashioned guns like out forefathers did, to hunt in the same way. The industry then saw a way to make money and 'get around the regulations" by making rifles that are far more modern than a Winchester 30-30 or a Sharps 74, but still "fall within" the regulations.
Now, I don't have a thing against inlines and modern muzzleloaders. If you like them, use them. But I do have something against them being allowed a special season. I killed an antelope a few months ago with a S&W M-29 44 magnum, with stock sights and a 4" barrel. I made a good shot and killed it with 1 round. Never fired a 2nd round. I was proud of that. It was a good hunt and a good shot. i have done it many times in my life, and I never use scopes on my handguns.
I had to hunt in the regular season.

Now, is there anyone stupid enough to think that it would have been "more of a challenge" to kill that antelope with a modern plastic stocked, scoped, speed locked, waterproof, bullet firing, RIFLE than it was with a stock 4" revolver?
I don't think so.

But in most states here in the USA, if you hunt with a revolver, you hunt in the regular season. Not in a special season. If you hunt in muzzleloader season, you can use a modern rifle as long as it loads from the muzzle. Many can even use smokeless powder.
There's something wrong with that idea.
If loading from the muzzle is the only thing necessary to be "legal" then it would make sense to allow 60mm and 81 mm mortars too, as long as you take the explosive out of the shells.
Heck, they are not even rifled. They are "older" then the inlines you see today..........