Except a vanishingly small number of tickets for popular events are even going for $50 any more, and how do you feel with the ticket costs $95 but you're actually paying over $20 extra for it? Sticker shock is real. Avoiding a $115 ticket price helps avoid some of that outrage. Here's a case study:

The last couple weeks Paul McCartney went on sale in a few places. At PNC Arena[1], the the prices for standard tickets were as follows[2]:

   25.50 + 15.59 =  41.09 (+61%)
   65.50 + 18.54 =  84.04 (+28%)
   95.50 + 20.41 = 115.91 (+21%)
  165.50 + 27.92 = 193.42 (+17%)
  250.00 + 39.24 = 289.24 (+16%)

That doesn't look too bad, until you consider that the lowest price offer, which is just over $41 all said and done, but there were only about 250 tickets at that price level releases, for a venue that holds about 20,000 people. That's just over 1% of capacity.

Less than 1,000 tickets of the $65.50 price level were released (and you had to pay $84 to get them). Less than 3,000 of the $95 price level (almost $116 for those) were released.

Now, I'm not sure exactly how you interpret that, but I suspect I know why they put put in a very low price level but didn't stock it with much inventory, and it wasn't to make sure deserving fans got a chance. It does conveniently allow them to to say that brokers grabbed all the cheap inventory in the beginning though...

That's not to say every artist does this. Some provide quite a large amount of low priced tickets, but the trend on that is down, not up, from what I've seen.

1: https://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/2D00551BBC524826

2: Feel free to check for yourself. Use this JS snippet in a developer console from the event page:

  _storeUtils.eventJSONData.tickets.filter(offer=>offer.description.match(/Standard Admission/))[0]
    .prices.sort((a,b)=>a.amount>b.amount).forEach(pl => 
      console.log(`${pl.combinedFees} + ${pl.combinedFees} = ${pl.displayAmountWithFeesTaxes} (+${Math.round((pl.combinedFees/pl.amount)*100)}%)`)
    )