Don't feel sorry, unless you feel sorry for the individual that thinks price is the greatest factor in everything. I live very frugal, yet I have everything I want, plus enough funds to keep on doing so, for longer than my life expectancy.
I have a dozen digitals in the workshop because 4 came with a 2.4 radio that I seldom use as it is on a model now used only as a night-flier, which has rather inexpensive servos. 8 came from ebay as I suppose they were being sold by someone that had to have higher priced digitals.
I recognize that some competition types certainly need whatever the current trendy thing so advertises. I am not in that group.
I have a fair number of sport models. All use regular analog servos, mostly Hitec's lesser expensive $30 and DOWN. I do have some of another brand with 100 oz. torque, but the 50-80 oz. moves my surfaces very adequately.
Never had a crash caused by a bad servo, however I have only been flying RC since 1971. Maybe my time has not yet come. Now, there have been crashes because of the "Glitch between the ears," mid-air crashes in pylon racing, and ARF structural failures, plus inattention to battery conditions, but that too is another glitch between the ears. Right! Cannot blame the servo with that one, just because I let the feed trough run dry, it's not the servo's fault as it has to be fed!

Digital servos need about the same feeding while resting at idle as the analog needs while hard at work. Digitals were, IMO, made to sell more and larger batteries to those that brag about the price paid. Now I bet those same folks P&M if they have to pay $100 a year to fly those many-dollar servos, at a club that has its own flying site. [sm=49_49.gif]

edited to add: These fly without digitals: