It's true that the market has a glaring gap at the low features / high quality quadrant if you plot simple vs performance ("features") on one axis and cheap thr

It's true that the market has a glaring gap at the low features / high quality quadrant if you plot simple vs performance ("features") on one axis and cheap throwaway vs built to last ("quality") on the other axis. But that gap isn't just some failure of the industry, it's also a gap on the demands side. A similar gap exists in the car world, where more generous interior features are almost impossible to find with modest size and power. And manufacturers who try their luck with a small/weak car that tries to be a little more upmarket than usual in other aspects inevitably get punished by lacking demand (e.g. that short-lived Audi A2)