Because expensive wheels, even ones like the Deep V, at least serve some purpose?

Fancy paint is just something to cry over when it gets chipped. And an excuse not to ride in the rain / lock it properly / buy one of those silly top tube pads.

You're buying this frame because it's affordable, right? That's its appeal, right?

What if I offered to sell you this fictional 3Rensho with totally sick paint-- but I'd magically replaced the tubing with straight gauge hi-ten boatanchor material. Would you still pay $400 for it? Or would you deem it a bad deal, compared to better-made frames with boring paint?