The people at SM (real people, with real lives nothing to do with Poser, and real husbands and wives and children) are not fools or sociopaths, they know what they're doing.

It really depends what the reasoning was behind these figures. I don't know that, do you?
No, you don't..

"If I were a shadow, I know I wouldn't like to be half of what I should be."
Mr Otsuka, the old black tomcat in Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)