>>35890529Additionally, you seem to be under the impression that idols have to be mainly focused on singing and dancing to be considered idols. You are mistaken.
Even within IRL idol groups, there are always members who possess lackluster performance abilities who often excel in other areas. This is done to ensure any particular idol group has a diversity of abilities, strengths, and interests. Their growth and improvement in various aspects of their career and their dedication to their fans is what makes them idols, not how often they top the charts.
In fact, it is COVER's dedication to using this strategy as far as organizing it's generations of talents that is further proof of them being an idol agency from the beginning. They hire and pick individuals to form groups exactly like a proper idol agency does.