The bigger issue here isn't the pricing, it's the 25,000 max users added to the licenses, which means that anyone who can genuinely afford these fonts isn't actually allowed to use them.

Edit: This paragraph was incorrect:

    The fonts affected apparently include ones like the main Japanese language
    font used by the game Genshin Impact, which has 2.8 million daily users
    worldwide (no idea of the Japanese user count specifically, but I'm sure
    it's over 25,000).

I was wrong about Genshin Impact there. That said, I'm sure you can see the effect with, well, literally any video game or app that uses one of those fonts (including internationally with localization options). Either you're too small to afford it, or you can afford it but you have too many users.