If your in the apple ecosystem then you aren't worried about over priced products.
This is...objectively wrong? The "Apple Tax" hasn't, up until the current generation and maybe (depending on your metrics) the prior one, been a serious thing for a decade. They've consistently released price-competitive systems that come with what's probably the best multi-purpose desktop OS on the planet.
Don't do the middlebrow thing. It never works.
There is no serious Mac server, period.