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I agree with the "in theory" part.
Bontrager isn't a real brand or anything. It was on attempt at trying to convince people that contract manufactured junk with stickers was as good as the specialty brands that made far better products. Now everyone is a sticker brand except Giant. Funny because they were the first major contract manufacturer when Schwinn sold out their neighbors for profit.
$200 is steep for OEM contract manufacturing from who knows where IMO.
Here's the thing, the BOM for a model may come from different contract manufacturers so you need to really do your homework or bring the bike. Stuff is intentionally proprietary to exploit you in exactly this kind of situation. Proprietary is always theft of ownership.