Customers are ultimately the problem here - not designers. Customers want lots of features, and they want it at a cheap price. This has resulted in an arms rac

Customers are ultimately the problem here - not designers. Customers want lots of features, and they want it at a cheap price. This has resulted in an arms race of every-more-poorly made devices that try to do more and more with less and less. This is the problem. Demand. Not the designers. They're just working within the market that exists. There is of course demand on the higher end price brackets as well, but that's a separate discussion. That makes up a minority of all sales in terms of volume.