What do you want? That's the tariff cost to import the good. I imagine minicockpit is catching a few of the various tariffs on China right now. The price is the posted msrp for non Americans.
I personally would expect it no earlier than Q1-Q2 next year for the 2024 version. There's still the model update that's been, what, a year in the making that has not released.
The fact CE customers get fixes first for an undetermined amount of time as a perk is one of the strangest thing any flight sim dev has ever done. Weird.