All you want is a mobile phone. All they want is to sell you a very high margin portable supercomputer.
Look at the “bargain” aspect of it though. The monthly payments total $1600 ± a few cents, and the suggested retail is $2320, or so they say. Wow, you’re “saving” almost $750 by buying it from them! Hurry up and sign up before the deal goes away! Why yes, I’m being cynical / sarcastic.
Retail commerce hasn’t been about providing what the consumer wants to buy versus what the vendor wants to sell since, oh, maybe 1850. If we’d had better archivists down the centuries I suspect we could cite one of Aristotle’s contemporaries writing a similar rant.
ETA: @wolfpup might find this a useful discussion:
Note that it starts about a year ago, then went dormant after 90 posts and was revived by the OP yesterday at post #91.