Even if it is there, it is easy to avoid: Just don't pay attention to the crazily priced stuff. Plenty of companies (eg: Magnaplanar, Schiit Audio, various small direct-sale speaker companies, and too many others to mention) have avoided going down that route.
If I were to speculate what drives (ha!) the production of these boutique headphones (remember the LCD-4s are BTO) it is simply that there are people out there for whom the money isn't a problem and ask of these companies "Please sell me the best possible headphones you can make." The rest of us can simply ignore these flagships, just as I'm going to complete ignore the new Orpheus.
Hopefully I can audition them in Tokyo later this month, but I'm not going to hold my breath. I'd want to audition them on my own system preferably, with the addition of an Yggy (for better resolution over my Hugo) and then maybe at a meet with the guys who have 009 rigs. I tend to take large meet impressions with something of a grain of salt otherwise, and doubly so impressions of any kind that don't mention the music being listened to, as that makes all the difference IME.