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I can see Branwen's point.
Take Fizik's Arione, CRC sell Ariones as cheap as £40 and as expensive as £240. While I'm sure the higher end materials in the £240 saddle add something to the comfort, they are basically the same shape and have the same amount of padding. They look extremely similar.
I dunno if SMP figure that people with smaller budgets don't care so much about aesthetics or if they think they don't deserve a good looking saddle* but either way it doesn't endear me to them.
*Even if you can ignore the aesthetic implications of the SMP shape I dunno if you can really call any of their livery designs attractive, even on the highest end saddles.