I preface this by saying, I know nothing about anything regarding this release, and I don't think anyone else does, either: production numbers, corporate strategies etc.
Something strange definitely went down/is going down here. Be it covid-related or a new strategy in general from Nike/JB.
Just a few weeks before the Flint release, the fire red Vs dropped. They were not especially hard to get. As has been noted in this thread, 13s traditionally don't go buck-wild in the market in recent times. There's been a lot of talk here about stimulus checks etc, and hysterics that this release is the new norm and we're back to 2011-style BS from JB etc ...
I'm not buying that this is the new norm. Nike has huge projected revenue/growth goals for the coming years. That's why it got away from making every release relatively limited like it was doing for the first part of the 2010s. The company isn't going to reverse course on that now. No ****ing way.
My thought right now is, this one caught everyone out, including Nike, based on recent retro 13 marketplace performance, the covid stuff, the Last Dance, etc. Clearly there are pairs that were not put into the market on release day. I don't think this one is over. I'm not suggesting a million pairs will suddenly become available, but there's been a perfectly ****ed up storm of several circumstances that have led to this. Just my guess and gut-feeling, anyway.