... I hope that is a joke, or sarcasm or something. Because I am never going to be in favor of LOWERING the bar, when we are talking about a $200-ish collectible. Nope.
You're 100% right. But I think his point was that until you get a taste that better exists, you don't realize that better exists. Everyone realizes that HT could do better based on their wins with other HS. I'm certain he never meant dropping quality.