I think the better analogy is a $500 Glock will kill you as dead as a $1500 Colt.It's the same thing that applies to higher end guns. A $500 Rock Island 1911 will kill you just as dead and shoot just as accurate as a $1500 Colt 1911, but most people want a Colt over Rock Island. It's the pride of ownership.
It is sort of how once quartz watches were invented they were better than old mechanical time pieces especially when it came to things like accurately keeping time.
But sometimes despite being able to have an inexpensive polymer striker fire gun that is almost guaranteed to go bang we still want to carry that old, low capacity king of the feed ramp stoppages anyway.