Hell of a first rep! Congratulations. Assuming you don't (through pure bad luck) get a DOA watch or similar, you're genuinely going to wonder why people would pay 20k when you can buy something so similar for a couple of hundred. And the addiction begins.....
Well very true, but we need to also remember that without the gen (and people who will pay $20k for them), the rep will not exist :hehehe:.
Your reasoning is true of course, in the context of purely the gen vs rep price and relative quality comparison. If I have to pick on the steel diver reps, I will just prefer a 2836 movement vs a 2824 or miyota one.