-Marketing is money
-Many truths to this. I learned the most from attempting and failing, than X posts. Honestly, once you have the correct lighting, flow and nutrient uptake (refugium, skimmer, maybe water changes?), calcium and alkalinity dosing. It's really not much more. I only buy food, salt, baking soda and calcium concentrate for pools.
-Also, I bet in the long-run, if the new aquariast brought an experienced aquariast (not me) by for no more than an hour. Every problem could be fixed or a plan could be made. Pay for an hour of any aquarium store owners time (aquarium maintenance fees), it would probably be cheaper and better than Triton.
-It's been around a while, but not to the consumer. Maybe early 90's.
-I agree, but does it work? Yes! Ask @Lexinverts He might know more about Triton. It has the sickest read-outs of the parts per million - parts per billion of almost every element in biological systems.