I was legitimately sad when LG left the market. It feels like nowadays, the only company left making "high-end phones at mid-range prices" is Motorola, while every other company is following the Apple/Samsung trend of charging literally whatever they can get away with.
We used to live in a world where a company would make a product "X", calculate how much it costs to manufacture, factor in a 30 percent profit margin to cover reinvestment into the company, and call that the "price".
Now, largely thanks to Apple, the "price" is whatever the marketing department can convince people to pay with advertising heavily on FOMO and "coolness", regardless of the manufacturing cost. It's a shitty way to do business (in my opinion). LG was one of the last of the good ones sticking to the old ways. Now it's just Moto.

"most"?
Try "all". Everything always eventually comes down to someone, somewhere, trying to make more profit for themselves.
That's why "Follow the money" is the surest way to solve any crime.