Because otherwise, they would have to write code to deal with what happens if a descending platform collides with a player standing underneath and they clearly do not want to deal with that.

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Because otherwise, they would have to write code to deal with what happens if a descending platform collides with a player standing underneath and they clearly do not want to deal with that.
reminds me of how in Skyrim, bare feet are just a boot model with a foot texture wrapped around it, but the only time bare feet ever come up is taking the shoes off either the pc or an enemy corpse, so it's just not worth the bother of properly modelling and rigging toes.