We have a free market and if Solar truly is so cheap to make, why has a company not popped up and just undercut all of the competition?

What would a viable alternative be? You can’t just remove one of those roles and still expect the process to work. While you may view the salesman as a useless addition to the project, who are people going to buy solar from? It’s a necessary role and while I agree with most of your points, that’s just the nature of buying anything that costs $5,000+. You’ll encounter the exact same thing buying grills, cars, houses, RVs, etc.

There’s a lot of competition in the Solar industry. If there was egregious price gouging going on by a handful of companies, then one company would step in and beat out everyone just by having better prices.

Unfortunately it’s not so simple, there’s a lot of factors involved in Solar, it’s not just the install that costs money, you have to pay the salesmen, the setters, the customer support teams, the site surveyors, and the install crew.

I understand your frustration though, shits expensive rn and we’re all paying out the ass for everything.

“Things should be cheaper because I said so”