Apparently...I touched a nerve. Sorry!
I just think a lot of us might swallow twice...maybe even three times paying that kind of money on a pair of wipers when others can be had for less. Hell...I might by a set before next winter.
Swallow twice, bend over once. The $6 Michelins at Costco work fine. I suppose if you live in a sh!thole and regularly have to wipe feces off your windshield, $80 wipers with tread on the top might be the ticket. Dunno. I've never had to do that.