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Ye. It is hard to give a number of significance of the effect, but it is interesting.

> I think there is some truth to this in that it's likely profitable to flood the market with mediocre products

I think a factor here could be that you don't want the customers to recognize bad products? Some appliance models rotate so fast there are hardly any (non fake) review consensus on them. It is not just no-name Alibaba, but "proper" brands to, that seem to do that.