@Gadolhadorah
The examples you post of a bigger honor for a larger donation may be offensive, BUT is a common community standard.
The community has decided that honors are in effect purchased. When that occurs they are no longer honors.
This is a community standard that goes back centuries, in the words of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof singing ‘If I were a rich man’ wealth would gain him a seat by the eastern wall in the Anatevka shul.
When a large shul sells holiday seats, those in the fixed pews of the main sanctuary are likely to cost more than the folding chairs set up in the social hall.