thanks for the interesting link explaining DG pricing, very good! I reckon the best way to reduce hardware cost is to make loads of it, meaning we need LOTS more pilots.
Think of how much a car cost 50 years ago and what you got for that money.
Now think of the current crop of computered, airbagged, luxurios, economical, quiet smooth vehicles available from all over the world -THAT is what we want in a glider.
There will always be a market for top class gliders, producing more of them will make them cheaper, not producing lower class gliders for the masses, that is short term at its worst.

Please dont come back extolling the virtues of your '71 buick vs a new hyundai -in reality you wish to be pilotting a new ASG or DG808, not a KA6. Think laterally, the more pilots, the more demand, the more gliders, the cheaper the build price and the cheaper the second hand market for good gliders (creating easier access for more pilots) and forward we go.

Dont re-invent the wheel