I wonder what the price of entry is to that market. If they're doing something so obviously flawed and if the price of entry is low, it strikes me it'd be relatively easy to make something decent that isn't crippled and sell it with all the bells and whistles.
It's not too complex or expensive to manufacture or even design welders. But the problem is that the market is mostly B2B and thus dominated by "nobody got fired for buying XYZ" mentality of practically price-insensitive customers.
