[gjsman-1000]

It isn’t.

It’s that when you have legal agreements with guilds and unions, even produced promotional material can be considered a production requiring minimum staff (I.e. makeup, camera technician, etc.) On productions, any person wearing multiple hats is tightly controlled.

A cartoon I watched growing up ran into this when they needed to insert live action, so they deliberately recorded at 1 FPS for that episode to make it ineligible for budget reasons (https://phineasandferb.fandom.com/wiki/Tri-Stone_Area).

If you’re ever wondering why a company can’t do something simple and obvious, it’s probably due to a legal agreement.

[rat9988]

Weird tangent here. Nobody expects software engineers to participate in a promotional video for their product.

[ashtakeaway]

Weird response here. Everyone expects at least some level of marketing for their software product to perform financially.

[rat9988]

That's a pretty weird response indeed. Swe are not part of the marketing department.