The business model is not to be condemned, it is nothing more than a market economy, so we we experience it every day, for example, at the grocery store. The only difference is that they, in view of the well-known product and the possible direct comparison shopping comes here immediately to the fore.
For an active consumers - in the new German parlance prosumer :-) - no problem. He can interact with other consumers through customer reviews and learn so.
In this sense, here's my product rating: 5 stars for the product feature "Quality", 0 stars for the product feature "price".