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You're missing the part that they spend millions for developing hard- and software. I happily backed the Librem 5. About a dozen developers, about 3 years.
The L5 also has many more discrete components than common phones, which makes the BOM (bill of materials) more expensive.
You also seem to vastly underestimate the difference between producing several thousand and millions of devices. The price could easily be halved if a million was produced.