Why is the Sims 3 store still so expensive???

I'm not going to engage much with this topic but the TS3 Store has by far the highest per-item cost of any mode of DLC purchasing in the franchise yet, and for every bad TS4 dog/cat bed (I'm mad too don't worry) there were Store items that were broken (categorized for the wrong ages, recolor channels broke, can't repair without route failing, and this is just stuff I actually remember) or in one case, the same item you got with an EP (the planter bowl is literally a palette swap of a Supernatural one) I can say that my favorite sims game was also greedy to the max as EA has been for over a decade.