I live in the Bay Area, which has a lot of high income areas like the DC area, and ticket prices between the Nats and Giants are comparable. The difference is the Giants would never tank like the Nats are right now. They're a mediocre team this year but they made an effort with Carlos Correa and even without signing him have over 2x the Nats payroll. The Giants owners take pride in the product year after year unlike the Lerners, who are probably hurting the value of the team by forcing the next owner to rebuild the fanbase.
I can get past the ticket prices, but the way the Lerners try to insult our intelligence has always been an issue for me. They send out Rizzo, and used to send out Stan Kasten, to provide PR shields for their salary dumps. Rizzo's "reboot" was a weak attempt to cover for their cheapness, although the Hall of Fame winner was in 2006 when Kasten tried to spin the Livo for Garrett Mock and Matt Chico trade as an investment in the future.