At some level it becomes expensive, but it's far from clear that five significant figures of mass is that level.

A US$2 quartz watch measures time to 5½ significant figures, US$10 multimeters routinely measure voltage to 4½, and US$5 GPS receivers can provide you with time measurements accurate to 40ns that inherit the drift of world metrology standards, a precision of 16 significant figures if you are measuring a long enough time interval (over 10 years).

You said, "Milligram accurate scales are $20 on Amazon," and linked to that scale. I'm questioning whether it's really accurate to a milligram. It sounds like now you're questioning that, too. That's fine. But please don't pull this sour grapes bait and switch bullshit.