That is very much true .
I know a lot of people that would like to have the top name brands in the race parts but we also have a budget to work with and when you start looking at the brands like crower stef's jessel T&D Cola Dart world just to name a few these parts are also top of the price line .
And i also know that a lot of people dont really need these kind of parts for the power they are making but they dont want the cheaper parts because they think they are no good and in a lot of case's this just isn't so .
I have two years running on a set of 140.00 dollar rocker arms and they still are good with a 800 lift cam shaft now are they as good as a set of crowers no i dont think so but they also dont cost a thousand dollars either .
But like you said we all are to blame for it but we all dont want to work our tails off for no pay so we are kinda in a catch 22 we all we pay in one way or the other.