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Sorting by best score is equally useless. You get random products that have one 5 star review that are often nothing like what you actually searched for. A better method would be the one described here[0], which reddit uses for its "best" comment sorting.

[0]http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating....

I think it's a problem with 3rd party sellers being chronically incapable of listing their products correctly.

Overall the platform would benefit from at least a small amount of manual curating.

God, yes. Searching by price gives you a price-first ordering of every possible result for any part of your search term.