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Another way to look at it is if you buy quality and later leave the hobby, you can always sell later and recoup much of your costs, whilst cheap crappy stuff will be very hard to sell for anything more than a token value.
Theres nothing wrong with using a few good quality plossls and a good barlow and can keep an observer happy for years.
Where money gets wasted is on cheap eyepieces that try to emulate properties of expensive eyepieces but at a budget price.
They invariably end up doing nothing very well and you are better off to stick to good plossls.
Also cheap barlows are a waste of money as the poor coatings cause horrible ghost images and likely also suffer from false colour. These problems make them next to useless for viewing the planets, where good contrast is everything.
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