Regarding 8k and the barge... that was the number of people, in the US only, who were able and willing to plunk down $540 for a massive, space-hogging item that they wouldn’t receive for a year.
There are surely tons of TVC collectors who either couldn’t afford that, had no where to put it, or weren’t allowed to buy it because they weren’t in the US. Also, reading comments in YF’s Instagram, I see a lot of younger TVC collectors who don’t care about the OT at all and just want clone wars stuff.