Rolex - sacrificing one market for the sake of another?

[JParm]

We first saw it with the SkyDweller, a piece that people thought would never be introduced in SS, yet a few years later, here we are.

Today, a SS Pepsi that looks EXACTLY like the PM BLRO (source yourself an Oyster bracelet, and you've got a 1:1 copy).

No doubt, this alienates the PM crowd and would push them towards other (PP, AP) brands. I get that the SS customers must be ecstatic, but what about all the former PM customers?

This is coming from a SS customer interested in my first PM piece...it makes me second guess going after the DayDate, as they'll probably release one in SS soon enough.