It definitely should be lower Price than that. The 3XL should be priced lower than other flagships given the specs.
Yeah, this is just a foolish comment. If all we're paying for is the spec sheet then there is no purpose for Apple or Google anywhere in the high end space of any of the markets they compete in. Yet they're making the best devices available in that space, consistently. There is MUCH more to device quality than just trying to out 'Samsung' Samsung.
Is it so hard to understand that specs is the only thing Samsung has available to compete with, in order to force themselves into the high end space, a place where due to their total ineptitude in the other areas of quality, they were never considered to belong until very recently? What'd they change? They worked with Google on fixing their software, they adopted Apple's design principles and in a large way their marketing. They started supporting their devices better, like Google and Apple. The keys to Samsung being able to rise above just being high spec garbage was to fix their polish, software and support.
Samsung has still have a long ways to go, but the progress they've made since the S7 is the reason they're up there, not just spec slutting. There are plenty of OEMs that can play the spec game, Huawei, Xiaomi, LG, etc and they are always going to be relegated to a second tier until they adopt what the masses, the people, actually want. And that's something you can't find on a spec sheet.
Specs <> Quality. Quality = Quality and can be accomplished with or without the "best specs". The Moto X 2013 was definitely a contender, among nearly all reviewers, for the best phone of 2013. It was far from the best spec'd. The first Pixel was definitely a contender for the best phone of 2016 despite being less spec'd than its rivals. I'm skipping years but the same thing is true in every single year from 2010 until 2017 and there's very little reason to expect an upset to the pattern has occurred in 2018.