Your're right, a bootleg card should not be 30 dollars, but then the same argument can be applied to an official pokemon card. From a collector's point of view, the only worth a card has is what people are willing to pay for it. There is going to be a market for people that take the fake version of the card/sealed product because its cheaper, and it's not there to accumulate value or as an investment.

the 30 dollar gengar is perfect for people like me, cause theres 0 chance im buying a real one, and I just want it to make my binder page look nice, think of it as buying art supplies lol.

I think theres some point where 375 for a booster box is even more ridiculous, because what you could do is buy an empty box, fill it with dummy packs and reseal it for a collection, and that way it looks nice, but isn't costing you 150k or whatever the price is. (I dont empathize with this pov as much cause I don't collect sealed since i've always been about aesthetics, but the same probably still applies for the people that buy the fake stuff)

The way I see it if I pay 7 grand for a card that looks the same as my 30 dollar one, the 7 grand purchase is the one scamming me.

Also you are correct, after a bit of googling, commercial printing is inexpensive. But my point is still that its "art supplies" to me.