The alternative way to look at it is that early adopters get the volume up such that the price comes down to where more people can afford it?

Agreed. From first hand experience, even for regulated electricity markets, games get played to maximize profit per power generated that are directly making stability worse. Fixing these loop holes is hard for the regulator since they are instructed to encourage both increased renewable penetration and stability, despite traders/operators/producers not acting in good faith and just gaming whatever they can.

If you use a string inverter not a emphase style microinverter, most of them are capable of running without the grid- Particularly if you add any sort of battery system.

These use a form of transfer switch like you’d use when you connect a generator- they disconnect the upstream.

This is true, but if you add in local batteries attached to the solar, you can have a device that works in basically all situations. If disconnected from the grid, it can run off battery instead of just not working.

I haven't read the OP link yet, but my guess is they are doing something like this: Grid, Solar and batteries.

It's just a coordination problem.

You are also sort of conflating "loss of interconnect" with "outage'.