All I can say tonight is I'm glad I got in early on several new gTLDS. I searched around for an hour at .design and everything I liked was priced at a premium price and not worth the investment.
This is the new trend, up-charging gTLDS, knocking out the domainers. Personally I think they're shooting themselves in the foot with this new tactic.
Over the past year I've been able to reg some great one word and short L, LLL extensions at reg fee. A, L.design costs thousands, a LL.design costs hundreds, a LLL.design is a hundred plus and good one word is even in the thousands with the same renewal too.
Hasn't things changed in a year?