But now? Do you think vapers or flashlight users are in the minds of those who design and manufacture these cells? Not by a long shot.
This is a cell meant to offer decent performance for the price paid which, indeed, is actually quite small even for conscious non wholesale customers (M26 at NKON).
Non top of the line cells are constantly being developed to satisfy price conscious customers, like the newer LG M29 or this quite interesting K-Tech INR18650P 2500mAh 5C which I bet comes from some good chinese OEM.