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the cost of drilling the holes in the PCB is more than the material cost they aren't recuperating the materials from the drilled out holes on the PCB lmao. similar story for the plastic; they're saving PENNIES of plastic.
it's not a materials cost issue, they're expensive because it's a niche product that requires even more specialized tooling (new molds for the holes in the plastic, extra steps on processing the PCB that requires those holes to be milled out of it, you can't just form a PCB to have those, they MUST be milled out and that takes extra time) that has more steps required to produce. people actually do want to shave down weight on their mice because it turns out lots of stick armed people play videogames competitively. the market is simply trying to fulfil the demand because people ARE actually modding their mice to do this.
