Epson is one of those companies that creates a solid product and just lets it ride. Like their V600 scanner has been $250-350 for its entire lifetime and is still the best on the market; it came out in 2009.
Also, the v600 is a great consumer scanner, but OH BOY can you get more fancy, for film you have the hasselblad/imacon line that are still a few thousand used, then you have drum scanners for the highest possible film scanning quality. For a more direct v600 comparison, there is this really, really old scanner that outperforms it: https://www.scansolutionsonline.com/media/1168/cezanne-elite...
A more modern flatbed scanner: https://epson.com/For-Work/Scanners/Photo-and-Graphics/Epson... Sadly lower res than what used to be out there.
High-quality XY prepress scanners like the Cézanne you mention, or prepress leaders like Fuji Lanovia, Creo-Scitex are also discontinued since the industry's gone fully digital and doesn't expect to scan medium-format slides any more.
No wonder Gen-Z finds scanners exotic and terrifying:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/gen-z-tec...
The only actively produced scanner that can outperform the V600 is Epson's V850.
It's a great unit, but official software support lapsed a few years ago so I am now using it with third-party software (ExactScan Pro).
Here are a few scanners I ran through a comparative color fidelity test a while ago, I was surprised how good it is for scanning artwork when it was designed for documents:
Scanners terrify generations equally in my opinion ;)
Museums actually used scanning large-format backs like the Better Light Dicomed, a flatbed scanner-like back that slots into a 4x5" large-format camera, so the camera is also a scanner...
I have a broken betterlight I got just to put on my shelf haha. Scan backs are neat!
EDIT: I checked the model and incredibly it is still sold, between $300-$1000 on ebay, etc.