>>3407189>its rare as fuck on the used market now and way too extensiveThat is because the AF-S had problems and would break easily. Nikon doens't have spare parts for it anymore either.
It's shame they continued producing the older AF-D version instead of fixing the AF-S problems or at least updating the old version with the better optical formula.
That said I'm still pretty fond of my 80-200mm AF-D