It’s the balance between size, performance, and price.
The smaller companies largely go for high performance and low price and ignore the size issues.
Many of the very expensive products are more nicely finished, but at the same price, you are giving up performance, or vice versa, to get the same price, you are paying much more.
There was an interview where @MonolithGuy said that they made some high gloss piano black subwoofers which were beautiful but were something like 20% more expensive for no added performance ($1k vs $1.2K maybe) and it was hard to sell. I was struck by how expensive the actual costs were to Monoprice to get high gloss piano black finished compared to normal vinyl wrap.
The smaller companies largely go for high performance and low price and ignore the size issues.
Many of the very expensive products are more nicely finished, but at the same price, you are giving up performance, or vice versa, to get the same price, you are paying much more.
There was an interview where @MonolithGuy said that they made some high gloss piano black subwoofers which were beautiful but were something like 20% more expensive for no added performance ($1k vs $1.2K maybe) and it was hard to sell. I was struck by how expensive the actual costs were to Monoprice to get high gloss piano black finished compared to normal vinyl wrap.