Companies don't sell the best product for the consumer;companies sell the best product for the company.
By which I mean that product with the highest profit margin that customers will buy in significant numbers.
Personally,I think $9100 is insane for a C65 but then I don't have any original paintings by famous people either;although I do have reproductions or pictures of their pictures.
Are such pictures as I have "emulated"?
From a technical perspective,I think the Apple IIgs was not fully developed by Apple because more money could be had in the Macintosh sales,like Commodore didn't really do what they might with the 128 AND especially bad was the lack of Ram expanders in quantity for the C64/128 in time to make GEOS and other programs comfortable.Commodore used the ram chips in the Amigas.