"Why are hearing aids so incredibly costly?" "...Experts don’t know exactly why hearing aids are still so costly..." So the article headline poses a question

"Why are hearing aids so incredibly costly?" "...Experts don’t know exactly why hearing aids are still so costly..." So the article headline poses a question that writer confesses in the second paragraph not to know the answer to. No, strike that. The author claims that experts don't know the answer to that. And I scan HN and get answers almost immediately. HN is great, no doubt, but it's not HN. This is an author who doesn't know how pricing works and doesn't know how to talk to people about how pricing works, which is much more troubling. And the editors must feel that this is the normal state of things. Pricing may be a bit of a black art in certain markets, but it's no mystery unsolvable by experts. You can bet somebody is setting prices on these things, and when they set them there's a lot of market and historical data being used to do so. There are simply not-so-many reasons why some things are priced much higher than other things, and these reasons are all well-known and understood. When I read articles like this, it makes me much more critical of every other NYT times article that involves "experts". Great article for HN because it involves startups, markets, new business opportunities, tech, and so forth. Not such a great article for the NYT, sadly.