>>9731505Yeah, especially the early to late 2000's had the most egregious examples.
Massively underpriced creator sets, the Titan XP 4508 had almost 800 parts and was $50 bucks, the giant dark red T-rex dino was $30.
The most egregious underpriced examples as far as production costs go were the 'Inventor' line, they had highly complicated electronics, such as picrel which has a motor, battery box, self contained gearbox, custom monkey tail, string... it was not cheap to make, and the "play and record" grasshopper was not a cheap thing to produce either (like imagine a mindstorm set costing $50).
Restructuring to remain solvent is well and all, but I wish we could find a good medium between the charming vintage lego and the small piece overproduced modern era. It's a hard balance to keep logistically when trying to shoo profit hungry shareholders away I'm sure.
Lego has always been an expensive toy but I feel like it always costs ~25% more than I'd like to pay. I assume parents have always felt this way.