>>7722436you're right, sculptors don't work for free and a talented sculptor will be in more demand than shitty ones, but once you're entering professional non-bootleg non-chinashit territory (read: every small to major company that /toy/ talks about), the mold quality is going to be the utmost quality you can really get.
QC issues can rear its ugly head, but if it's not fixed, that's a problem with Chinese factories fucking over toy companies and not wanting to admit to their (costly) mistakes.
Still, you had Playmates producing ultra detailed shit like this in the 80s and this is about as good as modern high end toy companies, because technology hasn't changed. You can argue paints and plastic, but injection molding at this level hasn't really changed.
Also, Figmas have tended to be soft because that's just how their sculptors sculpt.
You confuse style with mold. And plastics don't really matter either. Again i point at McFarlane Toys in the 90s, who had some soft as fuck plastics, yet the detail was better than almost everything today. Companies like Hasbro also used rubbery as fuck plastics for clothes and accessories for 1:18 figures and they hold tight sharp detail like anything else but delicate resins.
