I wouldn't want to go too hard on this, but there is something a-moral, if not immoral in shifting the apparent cost line, but actually putting the consumer into pay-more outcome. Up in the budget planning space for tech we often do the opex vs capex thing, and it is clear we have to be very specific what window in time the capex/opex is expected to equalize or show some benefit. Otherwise, you can incur opex forever, and pay a lot more than the capex (yes, modulo the non-obvious costs of operations for owning the capex)

But nobody does this for razors.

Terry Pratchett had a good one-paragraph rant on expensive shoes vs cheap cardboard shoes, the expensive ones last 10 years the cardboard 10 days.. its in the same space.