It's funny, but that's true of other categories of "products" as well. Sometimes, you can't really buy things that work well. You have to learn and build yourse

It's funny, but that's true of other categories of "products" as well. Sometimes, you can't really buy things that work well. You have to learn and build yourself, or do without. Another example: security of computer systems. The common thing here is the widespread demand in addition to the widespread lack of expertise. This results in the market being filled with "products" and "solutions" which are poor quality, but out-compete things which are good quality. Because most buyers can't tell. So if you don't have the expertise to judge for yourself, you'll end up with junk. Sometimes, there isn't a big enough market of buyers with expertise for there to be any decent options available to buy. You just have to cobble it together yourself with hobbyist/non-vendor produced parts.