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They are stiffer, and some heavily loaded and heavily dished wheels need the help. I think if you really needed them (heavy touring bikes, tandems) it would be better to look at reducing the dish by using a wider hub, and indeed that's what many people do.
It's not that they are especially cheap, it's just that they are one of the few online sources for individual ACI spokes, which are cheap due to not attracting the substantial brand tax of DT, and they don't take the piss when converting the box price to the spoke price, e.g. Outspoken £31/gro. or 35p each, a 63% mark up for opening the box and counting them out.