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The entire minifig scale is build around the minifigure. Differenties in scale limit the playablility very much. In technic the focus is much more on function and les on playablility. I gues the designers have different goals for technic sets and city sets. So depending on the goal different decisions are made. Its al Aboutaleb tradeoffs

I wonder if the comparison is fair. With the pneumatic partlist you get a set where you must do manual action to move the cilinder. With the LA set you get it by the flip of a switch. So maybe throw the PF stuff out for the LA, or replace the handpump with a compressor for the pneumatic set. In both cases I think the LA set will be cheaper. If my comparison is fair I don't know, but I only want to indicate it heavily depends on the context you place it in.