I heard that GE recently started making 25W equivalent LED snow cone lamps. I only can find them listed on Family Dollar. 25W incandescents are already an exempt category but I guess now you can get LEDs that produce 210 lumens if you want a dim light bulb. They seem very expensive ($5 per bulb), so I don’t think they’re worth it and I find 25W in general to be too dim for general household use.

LED costs scale down along with the power, while incandescent lamp does go more expensive to make when you go even down with the power at mains voltage. So my guess is it is actually not more expensive to make LEDs (at 1W you can get away without any explicite cooling gas fill or so.
And being LED it means they can still sell for more than the incandescent.
Also producing such incandescents is getting way more expensive, because the specialized machinery (filament making, its special handling of such long thin thing,...) has no other use, so needs to be maintained by profit of such small incandescent market.
The LED can just plain run on the mainstream production, it is just few resistor different in the ballast and maybe skip the gas fill, so expenses shared with the main production.

So way more profit when making them LED...

GE's LEDs flicker fairly bad in my experience. I used 960 fps video to record all the light bulbs i had. One GE C7 night light bulb was flicker free.

All the Philips i tested(which have the eye comfort logo) had either zero flicker or significantly less flicker than incandescent bulbs.

That being said, at 25W i would just use a real incan bulb.

GE’s dimmability doesn’t seem as good as other brands. That’s the problem with them.