Are people honestly excited for these 2K+ fucking headsets? 

Those prices are not reasonable in any way for just regular "I want to play VR games" usage that encapsulates 99% of anyone here or in this board. Those prices are for hyper enthusiast shits or richfaggots or game making companies using it for dev purposes. 
~1,000$ is the "standard" high end price for regular users, going down to 600-800 for the "good" headsets and going below that you start to get mediocre chink shit or you enter quest 2 territory which is honestly the best headset for the average user.

I just want the next high end headset in the 1k range. That's what I want to upgrade my old rift from, not these overpriced 2k trash