Of course! It is why they got rid of the headphone socket and power adaptor. To reduce costs & sell complimenting products. The money machine isn't daft.
Exactly this, I despise people buying these AirTags without a hole in it, if few people buy them Apple would have been forced to rethink their designs.
Nowadays most people can't think straight, just...wanna have this instead of thinking first, sorry, that's the way I see it, hell, quite a few colleagues of mine are the same.