I'd gladly pay more for better representation. Focusing only on what you pay without accounting for results (ROI) is short sited. When you hire someone to represent you and they subsequently undermine your objectives, refusing to represent what you ask for (doing their own thing making deals with the opposition), that's a poor investment at any price. That's true of any vendor.

For an extreme example, if your life was on trial using a public defender (who spent little time preparing your case) at little to no cost, going up against Shapiro on the other side...would you be getting a bargain?

Of course price isn't everything. When I sit down with a professional service provider I'm considering hiring, the first thing I look at is their ability/willingness to publicly state the objective then create the process and support to obtain that objective.