Factory Handmade Makes the Etsy Front Page

When I was very young, my family lived next door to a really nice woman who worked sewing handbags and soft luggage in a local factory.  She lived alone (divorced, an uncommon situation in the 1950s) in a house identical to ours in size and design -- except she had much nicer furniture than my parents could afford, and a very cool 50s kitsch aesthetic for her décor.  So working in a factory paid her well enough to have a comfortable, secure, independent life.  I have no reason to look down on people who make products in a factory environment.

What ticks me off big time about the "factory collectives" on Etsy is the pretense that a single person designs, makes, and sells a wide selection of products all by their lonesome selves.  Sells not only in an Etsy shop, but all over the net. 

Here is the item that was shown on the Etsy home page

It took only seconds to match the photo to other sites selling the same backpack.

Like here
Buy it retail on Market86

Or here:
Buy it at a huge mark-up on ecanvas bags
The item sold at this link is made with PU instead of cow leather, but uses the same image in the listing.

Wholesale here:
DoBest Wholesale wins a prize for creepiest item title I've ever seen!

Of course you can buy it on AliExpress

If you can make the minimum purchase of 300 units you can have it manufactured for you
Manufacturer on AliBaba
Production capacity is 100,000 units per month, prices per unit range from $3 to $8 each.

The "cupcakes" on Etsy might shake their orange and white pompoms in my face with annoyance and say the evil Ali sites stole the photos from the Etsy seller, and are pretending to copy her handmade design.  I'll be glad to accept that explanation, if they can explain to me how the merchants on AliExpress got access to additional photos from the same shoot, and larger high quality photos than those in the Etsy shop?

My guess is that Etsy's homepage will look much more like Storenvy's by this time next year.  Why keep the factory produced goods confined to the first pages of Browse sections?  Let's just calmly accept the reality of Etsy being the place for cleap factory produced goods, marketed with a cosmetically applied appearance of handmadeness.