The Cherry G80s are very popular in China while people here would't touch a thin-PCB, non-plate keyboard with a 10 foot pole.
In order to sell high price custom aluminium custom keyboards here, you have to offer plate & custom PCB as well to sell higher numbers. In this price range, you can already get a Uniqey keyboard with a nice, thick GMK pcb, GMK doubleshots and programmability ... of some kind...