I recently paid $16k for my 0.5 copy of AF #15 as that’s all I could afford. Did I want to pay that much? No. But it was complete and I took it for what it was since anything higher will cost me well over $20k and I’m not looking to pay that much for such a book right now.
Do I wish I could go back to 2 years ago when you were able to pay $400 for a mid-grade Tomb of Dracula #10 or $500 for an ASM #129? Yes, but those days are long gone and books are only gonna go up from here, especially the mega keys.
While I do want some price dips in the much bigger books, the likely hood of that happening is slim to none as the MCU progresses along with the fact that people are putting their money into comics for investment purposes.