For what it's worth, the engineering behind a drop stitched inflatable boat is fully eyewatering. Even with all of it happening in a mill in china where it's all done, the price just has to be high.
Just go back a few decades and thing "Alfred! Get me the rapid inflating Bat-dinghy!". The party...
Ever so dutifully, we did a lot of legal research before releasing a modern boardboat for this specific reason. So, I ended up being a modest factotem on the IP law around it. https://www.tradeonlytoday.com/columns-blogs/for-the-record-congress-closes-loophole-in-anti-hull-splashing-law. If...
Just for the record, the ONLY thing the SOL and the Rocket have in common is a long cockpit. If you think they're similar you're not looking at the weight, laminate specification, sailplan, blades, freeboard, rocker, bilges, topside flare, planform.... pretty much everything. One looks a lot...