Consumers win. If competitors can't differentiate on anything other than price, why do they deserve to exist?
I also found out that the sustainable model of the "aluminium factory" is to make me pay almost the same price of a new player to replace a shattered display.
In the end I was lucky enough to find on ebay some companies madly working against the sustainability of the free market that sold me a replacement display for 20£.
I ever since bought only cheap, plastic players. They still even let you change batteries...