There is some truth to the "settle" factor. Most of us are hobbiest and would spend $400-$600 on a dash pad. I am not sure too many would spend $1500-$2000. Even if it were 100% dead nuts on correct. For most of our cars, these pads work out well.

I think you could sell quite a few correct pads at the same price as these, but there are major challenges. You have to remember that when Chyrsler had these pads made for them, they did hundreds of thousands of pads. Their suppliers in turn could source the millions of square feet of the grained vinyl material. They could afford tooling to apply the foam to the frame and the vinyl to the foam. And amoritize the tooling over may different pads and years. Then, all of this was done 40 years ago. Companies and people come and go. Knowledge and technologies change. Environmental regulations may make some methods of production non-feasible. All of this adds up to not being able to economically have 100% OEM reporductions.