Comment by numpad0

You get what you pay for.

Ultimately what you are wondering is why electronics companies aren't relentlessly updating and optimizing products like they did during 1980s-2010s at every price point between $4.99 to $499.99M, that just wasn't normal, and that wasn't sustainable after all.

I think there's a chance that the world would go through these discussions again for software, and we realize why only US could produce great software, but we'll see...