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They exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_of_last_resort

well... https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/farmers-chickens-a...

If you’re a company that can develop a new, effective antibiotic, you’d sell it to everybody and make out like a bandit.

There's also phage therapy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy

Which is using viruses to kill bacteria.

Also I imagine that gene editing might also become a tool in combating infections in the near future.

Smallpox is a virus so you'd need a virophage or vaccines.

At the cost of killing those infected by antibiotic resistant strains now.

Few people die just due to antibiotic resistant bacteria. Generally someone’s immune system is compromised from something like cancer before they are at risk of death. And at that point it’t a race to find what’s going to finish the job.

Are there actually pathogens that are resistant against all antibiotics?

I assumed that the problem with multi-resistant pathogens was that the patient may not live long enough to try all antibiotics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally_drug-resistant_tuber...

But over time it's going to get worse and worse.