No, I actually fully acknowledge the increased demand on the markets. It's simply something players haven't had to deal with, which is why I've written that guide and trying to show people how to do it.
If you take nothing else out of this comment, take this: I hope these new dynamics are the impetus for FD to finally do the economic and UI rework that people like me have been asking for for at least 6 years now.
All the complaints I see which almost always stem from "I did this search in Inara and found nothing" are an artefact of never having to deal with market turbulence in the game before. It's new... change is hard, but this is a good thing.
Which is, bluntly, now in the hands of the players, thanks to this. If we want more sources of these goods in the universe, we're now empowered to make them.
As I said before, a player driven market (like many have been seeking) requires player driven demand. We now have player driven demand because NPCs can't keep up with that demand. I firmly disagree the fix to that is to buff NPC production rates.
I acknowledge your suggestions about RL things, but this is a game. The challenge here is logistics and the sourcing of both readily available goods in bulk, scarce goods in low volumes, and also a blend of those two causing things like CMMs and Insulating Membranes. These all pose different challenges to source effectively and efficiently.
But if we just buff everything, suddenly this is all homogenous. The challenge is gone. It's like removing all the different types of ships in the game and just having one ship.
Does price really matter that much on this occasion? We're talking a maximum price differential if you were building, say, an Orbis, of just 3 million credits (being generous). A single assassination mission would award nearly three times that much... so if you're having to take an inordinately longer period of time to get the cheapest goods instead of just picking them up from a more expensive location(and, when scarcity exists, items hold much higher value than their purchase price may suggest... noting if we want to tie back to your RL examples, businesses are also generally prevented from price-gouging during scarcity events, but individuals aren't tethered to that)
What commanders hording goods to resell for max profit will find is, if they are hording, they aren't readily selling them, because they can't stem the continual tide of these things respawning in their thousands, across tens of thousands of locations, they simply won't be able to sell them for a good enough price. Contrast against something like TDCs, where there was a much more genuine scarcity, and so pricing of 40m credits per unit was entirely achievable.
On it being unpleasant, is that because it genuinely is (and to some degree, it is, the UX is definitely not great), or simply that the techniques are mismatched with your expectations, creating discordance that can be eased just through further use? i.e you're so used to "search X in inara" that doing it another way feels unnatural?
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