Not sure if the recertified market would be as affected but prices are definitely going up.
Being poor sucks.
No kidding. This didn't ruin me but it was painful. And on top of that, it's smaller disks for significantly more than I did last year.
I bought them for years ahead. My primary pool is gonna start having drives fail from age and use, and it'll need replacements. So I'm gonna be sticking these in as they fail over time so I use all the service life I can get from the existing (8TB) drives.