I learned part of the reason (at least in USA) started in early 1980's (I think 1982) when MB cars started to be built in USA.

[He] rather joy'd to be than seemen sich, For both to be and seeme to him was labour lich.

This angle is buttressed from the interior by an enormous counterfort of lower mountain country, extending several hundred miles to the eastward, forming the main part of the highlands of Bolivia, and separating the tributaries of the Amazon

Many critically acclaimed novels are not commercially successful.