I think SS should just release the females on the old female buck and keep the costs down. As long as they have great sculpts we can easily swap them to Triad or TTL bodies.
Totally disagree. It gives buyers a poor taste if you half-ass a product with deliberate expectations that the buyer should finish it. The female Buck needed to be retired at LEAST five years ago if not more. It looks lousy in tight outfits and even worse in revealing ones. This redesign is long overdue.
Second, I haven't found the SS female heads easily swappable. Lara had a completely different setup than the Cy Girl setup, which is similar to TTL and Triad. The ball-topped Triad one I know is smaller than the standard Cy Girl, which is much smaller than the SS one.
Finally, the female SS buck is much skinnier than most other female bodies on the market. Those with tight outfits (Scarlett, Baronness) may not fit on any other body depending on how they're tailored and how stretchy they are. Lara's shirt was a major pain to move to another body, and I know a few people popped stitches and ruined them trying.