Comment by gtowey

The consumer landscape has gotten so hostile. Once upon a time you could use price as a proxy for evaluating quality. More expensive versions of a product were generally better.

Nowadays it's all smoke and mirrors; marketing, branding and lies. In general I find even the more expensive versions of consumer products are still garbage quality which end up in a landfill all to quickly. It's hard to buy something good even if you're willing to spend the money. Our current capitalism doesn't care about providing value for the money, no it's all about how much money to can squeeze out of people and how low you can make your production costs.