This is a great point. It's not (necessarily) that Americans are just inherently money-hungry; we just have to be because we live in a system that is really callous and unmerciful compared to other places in the world.
Yes? If you work with it every day you forget how obtuse and opaque programming can be. Most normal people barely understand basic consumer electronics.
Fromsoft is a great example of how you don't HAVE to make cheap, lowest common denominator shit and you can still be really successful. But it takes a lot more work and arguably a genius at the helm (Miyazaki) so we're going to keep seeing most companies take the cheap route.
So what he should have been doing anyway. Amazing.