It is easy to make any "logic" make sense with words like "if you build it, they will come" or "there are no bad products, only bad pricing" but the reality is that sometimes you can build the best product but if your customers don't know about it, they can't come to you. Also, there is such a thing as a bad product which is bad even for zero dollars because humans are the end of the day have a finite lifespan and at some point it isn't worth wasting my time with an Intel 14th gen processor because I don't want to gamble with the possibility of an RMA. Even if someone gave me a processor for free, there is a cost to my time and the rest of the computer which will sit idle as I wait for a replacement.

I guess the point is I don't know which if the two above is correct. I know sometimes I have biases that even I'm not aware of though...

There’s a massive difference between using limited funds to buy your daily driver, and buying a product specifically for the purposes of a review.