For what its worth, pretty much every world market out there is dominated by vendors that make bad products and rarely care. Usually just a few, even.
One thing I'm looking forward to with my future dumbphones are how disposable they are if they turn out to be horrible.
Ditto laser eye surgery and pretty much anything else remotely medical in nature.
Chocolate is not a healthy market either: http://ideas.time.com/2013/11/01/why-so-little-candy-variety...
Orthodontia and laser eye surgery are examples of the types of healthy markets that flourish in the absence of over-regulation.
You also seem to be conflating the health of markets and some idiosyncratic issues of your own regarding discovering competent suppliers.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/orthodontist
or·tho·don·tics
a branch of dentistry that deals with helping teeth to grow straight
If we're not even going to argue about the same thing, I'm done here.
Whenever there are no individual participants large enough or enough participants colluding to cause regulatory capture.
The US isn't interested in healthy markets anymore.
Second worst.