Some numbers to drive your point home:

The original base MacBook Air sold for $1799 in 2008. The inflation adjusted price is $2715.

The current base model is $999, and literally better in every way except thickness on one edge.

If we constrain ourselves to just 15 years. The $999 MBA was released 15 years ago ($1488 in real dollars). The list price has remained the same for the base model, with the exception of when they sold the discontinued 11” MBAs for $899.

It’s actually kind of wild how much better and cheaper computers have gotten.