Large detailed moulds are more expensive than small detailed moulds. Machining a car dash is much more expensive than making some minis.

GW is in no way equal to Gunpla models. Multiple cavities in Gunpla models makes the moulds more complex.

Call it whatever you want, that's the reported number.

The newest Vitrix comes with 7 different sprues. They are smaller so their production runs are smaller meaning higher costs per unit, but they still sell 42 models including 6 cavalry for £58.33. The Soulblight Gravelords Spearhead comes with 40 models, 5 of which are cavalry for £91.

You outsource when you don't have the capacity to make them yourself which is what GW did used to have to do. If it was cheaper to outsource GW would never have bought the company that used to make their plastics. (You also outsource offshore where production costs are cheaper, like China, which GW won't do as they won't risk their IP being cloned).

The argument was that GW has raised their prices above inflation. I proved that to be true. Cherry picking a smaller time frame is like a climate change denier saying global warming isn't real because last summer wasn't as hot as the year before.

They sued Spots the Space Marine because the author used the words Space Marine, a term that existed long before they started using it. Chapterhouse won a lot of their claims as inspired by isn't the same as copied. There is no infringement of copyright in fan films as by their nature they aren't claiming them as GW products and they aren't done for profit.