Well campers, since were all interested in cutting to the chase here, lets do that.

Merchants create stuff they think will sell.  There not going to do otherwise, regardless of what opinions might be expressed or any underlying motivations or agenda's behind those opinions.  If you have this many merchants making so many items that are the same, that should be a clear indicator that those items are selling well enough to keep the merchants in question creating those items.

Now, if you wish to "fix" this, there is one way and one way only.  As they old expression goes, money talks, bs walks.  So, put together an organization or group or whatever and get as many other disgruntled we hate sexy vicky outfit people as you can, and everytime you see an item that isn't in this category each and every one of you rush out and buy it.

Bolster the sales for the items you find "worthy", and boycott the rest.  If you do this, the merchants will respond and start creating more items like those.  Until then all of this is just shouting to the wind, because merchants are not going to spend a lot of man hours producing products that are "worthy" if they don't sell.

If you want meshes other than Vicky or Mike, do the same.  And when a new figure does come out, get a group of people together and start cranking out as much free or low cost add on stuff as you can as quickly as you can and get it out there post haste. 

If you do that a new figure has a chance of taking hold in the market place.  If you don't it won't, it's simply a matter of inertia as I said before.  People don't want to invest money in a figure that won't get much support, and merchants don't want to support a new figure until they are reasonably sure that people will buy products for it.

So when it's all said and done it's not about morality, artistic freedom or expression, pro vrs amatuer, or anything of the sort.  It all comes down to the almighty dollar.  That's the only "opinion" that the merchants will truly care about in the end, because all the critical acclaim in the world doesn't put food on your table.

And that is the only "chase" to cut to in this whole argument :)

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...