I did not deny the truth and my bike costs about the same as yours does.
What I did say is that most people have little to no benefit of bikes costing $2000 or more and that they may just aswell get one that costs $1000 and maybe have about 1% of performance difference.
Most people that only ride 10 to 15 mph will even have very little difference between a $1000 bike and a nice $500 bike.
I bought my wife a nice hybrid bike with a complete shimano deore groupset for only $500.
If people want to spend thousands of dollars on a few percents of performance gain that is entirely their choice ofcourse, but the fact that it is so remains.