You're pretty lucky if the specialised tools for your profession cost <$2,000/y to replace and maintain. Sometimes tools last many years but cost an order of magnitude more anyways. Sometimes tools require expensive maintenance after purchase. Sometimes they are obsolete in a short number of years. Sometimes they were out quickly with use. Sometimes (often) a mix of the above.

Regardless the reasons, any tooling in the ~$5,000/~3 year ballpark is not at all a high or unique number for a profession.

high end CAD design software, the kind used to design SpaceX rocket engines, costs tens of thousands of dollars per seat per year.