you’re reading it backwards. the inference is that it’s sad that such a steep price is still “lower than expected,” because it’s so wildly unaffordable for the average person. it’s highlighting the issue of medication being overly expensive to the point of being inaccessible.

Aonuma be like “zelda can’t be a girl because of the fragile masculinity of fake geek boys! you cant have TWO main female characters in ONE game omg...... how can we have ‘balance’ if our male characters don’t explicitly outnumber female characters???”