Regardless of whether these items are sold or not, it generally takes a linkshell to defeat them, the linkshell will take those items first, at current drop rates those items won't reach a point where everyone that needs it has one and they begin to be sold until the following tier of Voidwatch comes out.

A basement of Chinese RMT or an apartment of fat dudes in Tennessee aren't farming VW for profit.

It has to do with the point because SE is far more concerned about their friends across the ocean than they are with Joe Beer.