If you took a picture of Yosemite Valley with their top camera and their cheapest, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two pictures with a magnifying glass. On the other hand, if you were taking architectural pictures indoors in tight quarters, there would be pictures you could take with the top model that you couldn't take at all with the cheapest model. View cameras are the kinds of cameras used by Matthew Brady to take pictures during the Civil War. They have big bellows and you put a black cloth over your head to look into the back of the camera to focus. However, a German manufacturer has produced a view camera that folds up small enough to fit into an attache case.
Convenience is very expensive.
If you have no need to carry a view camera in your attache case, you can get the same photographic results for a fraction of that price. For some kinds of pictures, you can get better results with a Speed Graphic. Someone with big bucks can afford some very expensive photographic equipment that may not produce as good results as cheaper equipment bought by someone knowledgeable. Economists call such valuable knowledge human capital. Experienced photographers should not find that hard to understand, even if they never took a course in economics.