I totally agree. You get what you pay for.
The only issue I am really concerned with is, what happens when they fail? That's the biggest issue for Apple users.
NVMe SSDs are great, until they are not. You wouldn't know how many people I've spoken to over the years kept
telling me their stories when their iMac or Macbook Pro hard drive and logic board failed - and they lost data. Which is why for many years, I've been using (and recommended) RAID drives for storage. Sure they're not half as quick as todays NVMes, but they get the job done. Because for us (editing photos and such) we don't need the full 8TB on hand at full speed, only a fraction (since we don't do high-end video) - 1 to 2TB is more than sufficient as everything else is offloaded to the external drive.
As it goes my office is still using a SAS SCSI Areca RAID with my current Alder Lake hack alongside a Drobo 5D. The SCSI drive had been there when I first started my Gigabyte Z77X Thunderbolt build from
@Stork's guide all those years ago and is still going strong (thanks to the flexibility of a hackintosh).