Another primary consideration in introduction & eventual disappearance of Segmentata?

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I see that argument regurgitated with absolutely no supporting evidence.  If segmentata was so much cheaper, and "economically viable" then why do we never see it return during the Middle Ages when people were struggling to buy even the simplest armors?

Are we to believe that they preferred going unarmored to wearing segmentata?

For the last time, time=money is a modern concept. In an age where people occupied themselves with many physical tasks, finding the labor to put together a coat of rings would not have been difficult nor costly.