All beef is expensive right now anyway.
But yeah, the price explosion of former "trash cuts/poor folks cuts" is insane. Beef short ribs, oxtails? Those were tough cuts, suitable for a long braise, sold for CHEEP. Now? We've "elevated" southern cuisine and soul food and such, and now oxtails are a fucking expensive cut. Short ribs are expensive.
FFS, short ribs are one of those things I used to make at home when we were a young and poor married couple. My wife loved 'em, and they were like $3 a pound, among the cheaper cuts around. Now, I still make them, I just have no illusion that it's a money-saving move.
I have similar rants about the rise of the $8 taco, the $25 burger, etc. etc. etc. Taking all of the poor/working class foods, making them hip and cool, and as a result, quadrupling the price.
The last refuge is cheap cuts of pork and chicken. You can still get a deal on pork neck bones and chicken backs and such.