It doesn’t make sense to try to sell a quality product when the demand is based on a fad.
Trendy = bad for the consumer as a principle but it’s not as if we have time to constantly second guess everything (without going crazy).
Birkenstock, DocMartens, Red Wing, Church’s Kitchenaid, every “luxury” brand you can think of and most products listed on BIFL threads… (Also crocs but I feel they sell at such a low price point to begin with that it doesn’t warrant cheaping out. Fake crocs are cheaper and just as durable though.)
All these brands get ultra-popular because one product goes viral which they start producing cheaply and use to grow their business and later, if succesful bring out a “heritage”, “pro” or “classic” line for a higher price than the model was going for originally.
A scanner would be your best bet.
But you could go wild and ditch the photo idea.
The original piece was modeled in CAD. Simply follow the logical path for how it was originally done.
Measure the outermost dimensions and draw a rectangle as construction geometry. Then play around drawing a couple of circles - chances are that the top and bottom curves are circles and are trimmed and joined with eachother with say blend curve to preserve tangency.
Also measure the distance of the holes to the rest of the geometry. How far are they from the top and sides. You could measure their distance to eachother crosswise too to narrow down the measurement error.
The geometry is built around simple measurements, if you can work out the sketch tools and constraints, you can probably match the original with high precision.