In a funny way the hate they sometimes get is directly related to how good they look. If they weren't so different and beautiful then the initial demand would not have been so high. Meaning that the initial price would have been much lower. A lower price starting price would have not led to as much over production. Think about it the dream was that you buy one male for $25,000 or whatever and then breed it to 10 large normal females for minimal investment. You then get 20 or so that you think you can sell big money. Heck even if they dropped by 80% in one year they would still be $5,000. That would have represented $75,000 or so in profit. It's not surprising that this line of thinking led to them being over produced and hence the price dropping much faster than most anticipate.
It will be interesting to see where they settle at now that the economic incentive of huge profits decline and the prices get low enough to enter the pet market instead of only the breeder market.