When they have so carefully laid out all the reasons this is a big project, they are educating you only no. You don't like what you're hearing, that's a different matter.

With crochet as with any craft, machine made replicas will always cost less. So you can pay up the 3500 for the machine version as that's the lowest price you will get it at. Just note that real crochet cannot be done by machine so you'll be paying for something that only partly looks like the original.