* So like Jolla are offering their phone at a 'discount' in the Indian market, or how it is running at a 'discount' relative to its launch price in Europe? I don't see what your point is.
* Sure, but it feels and looks painfully cheap and out-dated. The battery fit issues that plague the phone are fairly unprecedented, in my experience. As for the Motorola G, it's always been priced at and marketed as a budget phone, something the Jolla hasn't.
* Then I guess everyone is stupid but you? Since this board should represent the Jolla's core market as you see it, a good proportion of people are neither very pleased with the hardware, or its sole selling points (as you see it) - Sailfish & Jolla themselves.
You and others are burying their heads in the sand. Jolla have frequently stated that they hope to become the third largest player in the industry (totally unrealistic as things currently stand), and have clear ambitions. The loudest voices in the community shouting that low quality or hobby level specs / quality of manufacture are the best thing ever, and anything else is stupid, is hardly very productive. People simply don't want to pay for devices that look bad, feel bad, are low specced, and uncompetitively priced on top of all of this, when they're already being asked to overlook the early state of the OS and lack of features and bugginess.
I know several active Linux enthusiasts who use it exclusively on PCs, develop Qt applications and who also laughed at what they thought was a "ghastly looking" phone, and on closer examination / playing with it labelled it a hobby device ... which it pretty much is at this stage.
* They differentiate 'popular' and 'best selling'. As with most sites who do that, the former is most likely gamed rather than just relying on page hits. Given that there is that separation, I doubt they alter the best selling.