Prices have gone down everywhere. Trust me. Been doing this for 30 years. LEGO prices haven’t kept up with inflation to begin with. The presence of $1000 sets (super rare btw) only prove that LEGO’s portfolio expanded, not that other has gotten more expensive. You can very easily get a $99 Millenium Falcon that’s better value than it ever was in the past. Price per piece ratios in the past were actually terrible compared to to the last decade or so.