I'd counter that this emerging pricing structure suggests developers are finally charging fair prices for their software, and that this is a good thing.
I don't mean to be a curmudgeon, but I'd suggest that the move towards "free/freemium" across the web has helped to breed a sense of entitlement in users while devaluing the work of interface design and software development. To see a user buy an app for 99¢ on which a dev team spent months, then pan it with a one-star review complaining that it doesn't have a feature s/he dreamed up is ludicrous.
Geometry Wars from Activision is $9.99. After watching a demo on YouTube and finding it as good as (or better than) the Xbox version, I snapped it up and couldn't be happier.
I'm glad to see that developers are charging what their worth. This is good for software, and good for users.