Capitalism exist at ever level in gaming and collecting in general, from big investors to flippers.
Whether it is a driver to cut corners to save costs which result in a substandard product, which results in people not buying it to flippers using bots to buy up products at launch to rip of gamers or collectors.
The only way such things self correct is if the consumer has the will power to not support such practices. If you feed the monster cash that is does not deserve, it breads other monsters into the mix who want some of that cash. These monsters don't care about the consumer's happiness and long term grown, only looking to make a quick buck, then when this lot of consumers are fed up and decreased, they move onto the next target like locus.
