/me can barely contain shock.

MS B2B pricing has always been high.

Looks like they tried to match Amazon Workspaces prices. That doesn't mean it isn't expensive though.

I'd call them both niche products that I'd be more interested in developing on if it wasn't so expensive to do so (at 16 GB of RAM). I'm not entirely sure I can describe what the normal deployment scenario looks like (e.g. traveling salesman doesn't work because you'd need too high of internet quality on the road, developer doesn't work as RAM pricing, and in a lot of scenarios you need on-prem hardware to connect to it anyway).

Not compared to Citrix/VMWare/Amazon Workspaces, which is that + Windows licensing. Those prices include licenses (and license management, their portal keeps track of who has Windows licenses and therefore can have a cloud desktop). It's competitive, especially if you can leave the VM turned on all the time.