I also agree that if one hears an improvement, who am I to interfere. However, what does incense me is charging $389 for 3 little blocks holding a rubber band:
https://shunyata-uk.com/product/accessories/df-ss-cable-elevator/That is simply predatory! They probably cost closer to $10 each to bring to market. The same goes for $100 fuses. I don't think you could spend $50 mass producing a fuse if you made the filament out of metal harvested from meteorites. Does someone who pays $2,000 for a pair of 1 meter ICs really think that the manufacturer is only asking for a fair profit based on his cost? Or that it's the biggest impact they can make for that amount? (Or if anyone deserves to be that self-indulgent while others are hungry.) Equally guilty, if not more so, are the retailers who sell them to us, along with real, quality products. They serve to legitimize this standard of wastefulness and convince us that if we don't buy in, we are simply not advanced enough in the hobby.
Get anything you want for your system, just don't pay ridiculous prices and contribute to audiophile-inflation, please.