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What is the downward sloping arrow in those charts?

Enshitification. It's where the price goes up, but the quality actually goes down.

I was thinking more of something like mechanical watches - more expensive than a quartz watch and less accurate.

Those are the same as fancy rugs. A machine will make better rugs, but you're paying for the artisanal story, or whatever your abstract value is.