Why are PS4 controllers so stupidly expensive and rare?

[Desolate Eden]

I'm gonna get carpal tunnel playing on my current one I'm using since it's so badly designed and been meaning to get a PS4 one for a while now since they're comfortable and large, but they're literally completely sold out everywhere for like a year now except 3rd party sellers selling them for almost £60. Is there nowhere to get them cheaper and are there any alternatives? I think it might actually be cheaper to buy a ps5 controller if it was in stock at this rate

[Vault Hunter 101]

I think the touchpad makes them expensive

[DieegoPeri]

They are out of stock in UK and expensive? Damn, a month ago they were available here for 30€, try Amazon .es, .de, .it, .fr, etc and ebay

[Lily]

It's PlayStation. They do this all the time.