Sure, but some people pay $30,000 for a bottle of Chateau Petrus too. Personally, I think they're crazy.
But it's not the existence of the high end that I'm remarking on, it's the apparent lack of low-end competition. Where is the two-buck chuck of vertical flute adapters?
How do you quantify a unit of "better"? And perhaps more importantly, how many musicians agree with you?
If you want to fall back to economic evidence, centuries of musicians appear to have wallet-voted the other way.