This is not about quality and costs
It is about quality and cost for the majority of purchasers that worry about meeting a budget. Virtually anybody making purchase decisions on some sort of surveillance system will grapple with that issue. My point is that we all tend to want the best performance for the least cost, and breaking that habit for the less tangible purposes of domestic security or human rights somewhere else is why we will continue to see these articles about Hikvision/Dahua cameras getting deployed at times and in places they probably shouldn't.
Reminder that Obama won Florida. Also that Trump performed worse in Texas in 2016 and 2020 than McCain and Romney in their prior runs. Florida got weird, but Texas has looked close to flipping for a while now.