Exactly. for me they were an expensive curiosity. 100 or even 20 bucks back then wasn’t exactly chump change. If you did have a computer, it was much cheaper to just use a burner or even a pile of floppies which were dirt cheap and reliable. I only really saw them somewhat frequently at university. When i could afford them, they felt well-made but performance was terrible and the disks and devices failed after only a few months… even the stupid external burner. By then the competition was eating their lunch anyway.