Those features aren't available on consumer market stuff anyways. The instruments that have them come with a hefty price tags anyways.
Maybe I should've said entirely analog front end with digital use limited to something that is not of the "embedded systems" type that contains proprietary embedded software that raises the PRICE by forcing the purchase of hardware that's unusable without purchasing the software license already flashed into the product.
You continue to drill cost the in the same context as what it costs to press per disc while there's only a sparse connection between the cost to press a disc vs the retail price of a movie or a software.
In days of analog instruments that only used digital for the user interface output, the "optional" software provided functions similar to EMBEDDED SYSTEMS FIRMWARE non-sense often listed for several hundred dollars. Sometimes the deluxe version was more expensive. This is hundreds of times the cost of the 640K diskette, ink, paper and staples and box that forms the software kit. The "cost" you speak of is that of these materials and is only relevant to OEMs, not us.
You're simply made to buy a copy of that software that's pre-flashed into the unit with "embedded systems" design, so the price will still be high
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