There are tons of sports where the amateurs end up buying top of the line gear. People will spend thousands to ride the same bikes the Tour de France riders do

There are tons of sports where the amateurs end up buying top of the line gear. People will spend thousands to ride the same bikes the Tour de France riders do. You can spend crazy amounts on basketball shoes, sweat wicking synthetic shirts and all sorts of other gear that LeBron uses. If there is a sport that requires buying specialized equipment, there are people buying stuff that is completely unnecessary for their use case.