All too often in life, things aren't quite what we expect them to be, and these days, there are so many products promising so much and delivering so little that you almost expect there to be some creative deception (also known as “marketing”) going on with products you're purchasing. With the rampant application of strategies by businesses like “shrinkflation," which is really usually just “greedflation,” we're almost relieved to discover that a “croissant lamp” is actually a croissant lamp. Of…