Nothing 'we' did makes any difference. 'We' as in people actually caring enough about shaving to belong to a wet shaving forum.
Whatever happens in the shaving market outside the small quality outfits and the people who buy their products, is determined by the millions who watch commercials and buy Gillette or Wilkinson. They determine what happens to mass market production. It doesn't matter what we think of GD, sight unseen razors, etc (shite, I agree).
Think of it like this: people already abandon rational though when it comes to decisions that greatly influence their lives, such as 'whom do we vote for?'. Influencing their non essential decisions by rational though will fare no better.
Btw is Germany really stepping away from the old titles? It wasn't really that long ago (15 years or so) when I had contacts in German industry (automation and engineering, PLC programming and production line systems) and at the time everyone was careful to address the Germans by their title because they were really picky about it and if you wanted to get anywhere, you'd better call the meister 'Herr Meister' and various other people by other designations (forgot the details) because otherwise the conversation just ended.