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If you saw how hard EN management tried to push the guys (shortened collab ban, no overlaps allowed early on by the girls, multiple collabs that felt forced, rebranding to focus on holopro and create the image of an "EN family" with girls and guys, etc.) then it's not outrageous to be skeptical of EN management now.
It's not too unlikely that, in an effort to boost the guys, they worked some kind of "would you be willing to collab with stars as well?" question into their later stage interviews and then ended up selecting only those that said they d be okay with it.
Wait and see I guess.