It's an observational satire about how every single thread where any new product that costs a fair bit results in the exact same boringly predictable price rants, because people get riled up in the exact same way every single time an expensive release is announced. I'm not defending the product from a perspective of saying it's totally great value, it very, very obviously isn't good value if you just want to go out and shoot bbs in the woods, for the exact reasons you outlined. Everyone already knows that. There are 1000 AEGs on the market that already provide a cost effective way to go and skirmish.
No that's why I said "long out of production".
