Unfortunately the basic market for high-quality new pens seems to be as a luxury accessory, with price inflation to match. There's an apparent increase in low-priced new fountain pens in the last few years, but they all seem to have extremely stiff nibs made of thick steel or something.
[I met a guy in Boston who had a small open-by-appointment shop with like 4-5000 old fountain pens, most of which were not really pretty enough to sell well as boutique/antique items, but many of which wrote very nicely. He bought a lot of pens and eeked out a living selling the prettier ones; I'm not really sure what the eventual fate of the rest is.]
† There are tons of super cheap and nice flexible nibs available for dip pens, though I guess many are not well suited to general writing.