My car just underwent a EUR 0,6k value increase since I had to purchase a new set of tyres. That still doesn't bring it nowhere near the system's cost, but I found a striking similarity between choosing some new cable and choosing tyres given the fancy tech talk as well as accompanying exclusive-product bits some manufacturers offer (just observing, not criticizing being a Cable Believer myself). Indeed, by mere virtue of buying a certain type of tyres I now am a member of the PZero Club which is a feeling just short of driving Ferrari or Bugatti, so there!
It also means I will have to save another month or so for a cord I had set eyes on.
Or should I go for some cryo'd silver exhaust pipes perhaps? (Nooooo, nip that in the bud, right now!)