If you always buy the cheapest version of everything, people will also buy the cheapest version of you. But there are a lot of other factors. People are often

If you always buy the cheapest version of everything, people will also buy the cheapest version of you. But there are a lot of other factors. People are often afraid of tech. If they consider employing something new, it has the be the "ready-to-use-version", where you don't even have to engage the technology itself. That said, I am critical of regulation giving advantage to more solid and open technologies. Politics would use it as a buy-in for influence at established tech companies. Look at AI, politics doesn't want to look at questionable data collection, it has a problem with open source models or that "everyone can use AI". The first scream would be about scams and criminals.