Thanks for pointing this out. It’s a micro-hoarding type behavior that collectors share (stamps, trading cards, mechanical keyboards, etc). It’s fulfilling that compulsion and not anything else. The mechanical keyboard people especially, most of those keyboards are ‘meh’, but they compulsively get those and new keys.

I am not attacking the hobby, I am only attacking the obsessed who will insist their fetish is not so, and that whatever they are doing has an inordinately higher value proposition. It doesn’t, you’re just a collector. Join the miniature train set people.