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@Sainsburys_Ed
it is partly due to uci weight specifications, bike must be a minimum of 6.8kg for racing and racers prefer to save. Weight in other areas like wheels with carbon and pay a weight penalty where it is less performance inhibiting like the handlebars and stems, also the frequency that racers crash, it makes sense to have something that can just be picked up, dusted off and ridden with like aluminium where carbon may shatter.
What this means is that the development end of things doesn't have the money needed to drive prices down to affordable levels.
The high cost in turn puts off all but the fiddys if this world and means that they aren't coominly available due to high prices and low demand.