not an expert here, but there are thousands of variations of this.. the amount of effort and unique-whatever'ness that it takes to bring a product line into pro

not an expert here, but there are thousands of variations of this.. the amount of effort and unique-whatever'ness that it takes to bring a product line into profitable maturity includes lots of people, places and things.. most of those are costs. If capital and their attorney buy the entire operation, with all the layers, the focus changes to the accounts and balance sheet, where lots of happy positive things are mercilessly cut. An unpredictable second part is, willing buyers for some of those parts. What happens from the consumer point of view after that, may or may not appear to make sense. Communicating to the customers costs money and risks reputation. Quite a lot of what happens in decision making is business-secret, some of the bad parts are forever hidden. $0.02 in America