Comment by api

What happens is the price difference gets huge. Quality furniture does beat shit at the high end of the market, but a real quality bed or sofa costs over a thousand dollars and up from there. The price difference between shit and quality starts at 5-10X.

Tangent but -- one furniture hack I've found is that if you don't want to pay a lot go for the simplest design you can find made of basic wood or metal. It'll be... a wood or metal kit that assembles into the basic form of what is needed. Wood is often unfinished or minimally finished. That stuff is pretty durable. Things that look "fancy" but are cheap tend to be utter trash, made of the worst materials with poor tolerances. A more elaborate or artistic design plus quality equals expensive.

When I say minimal I mean minimal. A cheap quality bed frame is a rack the mattress sits on. A cheap quality dresser is basically bins on tracks.

Ironically places like Amazon is where you find this cheap quality minimal stuff. Furniture stores are complete trash unless they are artisan, often local, like I live in Ohio and there are artisan Amish furniture sellers that sell good (but $$$) stuff that is literally hand made. But find one that is actually sourcing or even tied to an Amish community. You don't have to look into the store, just the stuff inside. It will be solid and build via obvious craft joinery, etc., and will weigh a ton. (and you're supporting a local community)

So I wonder if software will start to look like that. Pay a lot (like enterprise prices) for highly regarded pro software or find something minimal "hand made" by a 1-5 person shop. The world of quality native Mac apps comes to mind for the latter.