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> "waste" a few dollars on a streamlined process than spend hours trying to get Let's Encrypt working

This is true. It probably took me somewhere around 20 hours to get everything streamlined with Let's Encrypt (I started before public beta, so the available software was buggy, convoluted, and not well documented). Just like with open-source operating systems, the advantage is not in the initial setup but in how many units can then be deployed for minimal unit cost. If you have only a couple of domains to be encrypted, LE is not worth it currently.

Perhaps the commercial providers should focus on the small-scale users, which is exactly what they probably would rather not do.