It's good for rough pathology of certain infectious diseases and fluid and tissue conditions. Also, you're throwing around a strawman about fixed costs that are

It's good for rough pathology of certain infectious diseases and fluid and tissue conditions. Also, you're throwing around a strawman about fixed costs that are amortized in volume. Plus, robotic manufacturing and packing can produce these in massive quantities that drive the net unit costs down. I've played with similar microscope prototypes IRL and they were quite impressive for something seemingly primitive at first, they were quite usable and adjustable.