I am not quite sure why people buy a bunch of cheaper products over one really good one. I know a fellow who buys $1,500 to $2,000 speakers - then every 8 months to 1.5 years sells it to buy another one. He did this for several years and still does - And I am thinking one really good $5,000 speaker beats all of the $1500 to $2k speakers he was buying and selling - all the losses over 10 years. So he was listening to his music collection - never really happy and he would have been far happier with the $5k speaker for those 10 years.
I have done it with a DAC - a Line Magnetic 502CA which sounds really nice in tube mode and unlistenable crap in Solid-State mode. And they didn't cheap out - each mode has a dedicated output transformer. Presumably, Chinese owners like to show their friends the difference between the modes but IMO they could have made the DAC cheaper by just offering one mode (Tube) or using better parts quality for that tube only DAC. In other words, you're paying 50% say for the SS mode you will never play other than for guests to sort of illustrating how bad SS sounds. But this could have simply been done at the dealer.
This goes back to the turntable. Rather than buying a turntable where you can put 3 tonearms on the thing - why not use the money for all three tonearms and buy One bloody awesome e tonearm that will sound better than the other three individually. Ditto for the cartridge - One really awesome $1200 cartridge will sound better than four $300 cartridges
At the end of the day, whatever improves your vinyl playback enjoyment is all that matters. I've owned turntables that did nothing for me to the point I played more CD. Since getting my Audio Note TT3 with PSU 1 over two years ago I have played maybe 2 CDs and that was just to make sure the Transport still worked.