Artistic excellence has never been the Mint's consistent goal, although there have been notable exceptions. Those exceptions, are however, well recognized, and have now been beaten into commercial mush through needless repetition and bastardization. The CCAC recommendations of a decade ago were not fully implemented, and thus the key component - a professional art director with both academic stature and authority - has never been hired.
No, your point was clear. It is my contention that what happens on the secondary market is not part of the US Mint's business. Other than fair initial distribution, secondary profit/loss is irrelevant. But, the Mint should be doing a much better job with product artistic quality.