Photography and similar hobbies tends to have a "quality bottleneck"

A full frame camera needs more expensive bigger lenses which needs a higher quality tripod, larger and faster memory cards, more powerful computer for the editing, etc...

Improving one thing requires improving everything since the final output is limited by a "bottleneck"

The Diderot Effect seems to point out a similar "identity" bottleneck where a higher quality(status) identity is bottlenecked by the lowest quality frustration.