They were! I got lucky—I have some raspberry Pis and a dashcam, so I bought like ten endurance and extreme or whatever performance MicroSD cards mid-last-year. My partner was like “do you NEED those?”

“nahhh but I wanna have them as backups on-hand”

“Absolutely fair!”

Now while cleaning last weekend, I found a couple 128-256GB endurance cards and a bunch of 256-512GB SanDisk Extreme micros I tested for authenticity and put in a box. Looked up the prices now and… woof!