Well, yes - most people buy products based on price, and from the thread it's obvious that additional display controllers would could far more would be reasonab

Well, yes - most people buy products based on price, and from the thread it's obvious that additional display controllers would could far more would be reasonable given the overwhelming majority of laptop users don't connect 1 external display to their laptop, let alone two. What you're saying is not dissimilar to saying the reason that some machines have a single small budget low speed intel cpu & iGPU yet others have 4 Xeons and dual full-size discrete GPUs is market segmentation. It's technically accurate, but implies a malevolent removal of features to create a product.