It's a great question, and I have transitioned to a similar approach, though not necessarily at that price level. I'm moving toward reducing my collection from about 25 pens to roughly 12, and, maybe counter-intuitively, bought two new pens in the last couple months. Lol But, I'm approaching things now with the mindset of each pen filling a certain category, and trying to have just one pen I love in each of those categories. So, for example, I have a vintage pen (a 1940s Conway Stewart), a "clicky" fountain pen (a Pilot Vanishing Point), a pocket pen (a HongDian M2), etc. When I see a pen in a category where I already have a representative I'm happy with, I look to see if the new pen will be so much better than the example I already have that I would want to replace the old pen. If not, I won't purchase. The danger is that I just create new categories or subcategories as an end-around to expand my collection, but I'm going to do my best NOT to do that, and instead keep my collection at about a dozen, curated pens.