It is a lot harder to measure the relative value of a product when only one iteration of the product exists, it's true. However, there are trends you can look at. Perpetually high and rising sales of a product, for example, are an indicator that something about the product as it stands is highly appealing, and that the potential market for said product has not yet hit a saturation point.
Whether you can accredit this to a perpetually packed in component of the product can only effectively be measured by observing how authentically typical consumers (ie. ones who do not rant about the product online) react to it. Mainstream media tends to pay attention to this far more than enthusiast media, I find, but that's beside the point.
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