I called their support one time about an old Wacom tablet I have, they wouldn't help, just kept trying to push me to buy a new one, so the comic is accurate.

Professional models run in the low thousands. Well, they did before all the fuckery with tariffs, the Strait of Hormuz, etc. probably worse now.

I will say though, my husband’s Wacom was around 15 years old by the time he replaced it, and it still technically functions, the screen is just hazy from a decade plus of use.