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As a thought, even with this spec car monopoly, ORECA only has as many cars in the race this year as Porsche did in the 80s when 10 fewer cars were starting. If you go back a couple decades you might have had prototype variety but the entry list was stuffed with 911s instead. Although having said that this year's Le Mans is crammed with 488s too.
In general though, naturally customer categories without constraints on car availability tend to head towards an overwhelming majority of one type of car anyways so as long as you have 55/61 entries coming from only two types of car and something like 40 of those are customer entries it was liable to look this way. There was a point in time Reynard had 23 cars in a 29 car CART field despite no restrictions on who could build chassis and it was probably even more lopsided in F3000 before that. Dallara became a de facto spec car provider in the old F3 rules just because nobody bought anything else.
I don't like it politically or conceptually and the development freezes could be considered almost another issue entirely but besides going back to two distinct GT classes and reducing the LMP2 count with some actual LMP1 entries the only other thing that would outright prevent this situation is some special manufacturer cars with limited customer availability blocking out the top of the competition instead so everyone has to bet on random constructors to try and beat them, and that's not exactly a good thing.
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