Early government support of R&D and market support is one of the things that Germany (and a few other countries) contributed to the current success of renewables.

So that is in part why they are cheap, but they are also simply cheaper now due to their scale of production.

Nothing 'absurd' about that though so not quite sure what you're claiming is happening. Presumably something along the lines of there being a big conspiracy to hide the true costs of renewables which hurts the real cheap energy sources, which are fossil fuels. Which feels backwards to me.