They sure do like their sleep.

Adding to what Steve said, there's an intrinsic value to a lathe that spins something about its axis just like lathes did 100 years ago. The lathes made today are lighter, quieter, stronger, more flexible (variable speed and reversible), and other pluses that come with hundreds of years of technology.

But lathes do not crash (hard failure) for no reason. The price of the lathe can be linked to the value of the raw materials, labor, and transportation costs. A $1500 C-compiler costs that much, why? I can see spending $2000 on an air compressor that has a certain capacity at a certain pressure, because that can be directly applied to the solution of a need for compressed air of the same (or less) volume and pressure.

With free compilers like SDCC, the bar has been raised. You or others might turn your nose up at free compilers, but you benefit indirectly by their existence. The company that wants to charge money for their C-compiler will have to be quite superior to SDCC, otherwise, who would buy the commercial compiler? Would Keil be as good, if there were no free alternative?

My comment about not needing commercial software tools is just an evaluation of my current needs. SDCC generates a binary image that is adequate. I measure the program's performance with a frequency counter and sometimes an osciloscope. If the performance is inadequate, I optimize the code by hand.