Some of those rich people would pay 3000 for a painting but not 300, because they’d not want a “cheap” piece in their pricy living room. If one manages to catch the attention of those people it’s way more healthy to dedicate yourself into making your stuff a little more eye-catching to those eyes and sell less often but of a pricier value, imo

It’s a timezones vs actual sun time thing. In Spain near me they are like 2 hours away from their actual sun time so you can even add that to the lag you said. I’m sure it’s the other way around somewhere in the world, specially in medium and big countries