First post! just felt I had to post on this one.  SS is a public company and as such the management is responsible of getting the best possible profits for their stock holders no matter what, or else it would be an infamita, a mis-management.

Sometimes its hard to see the forest for the trees. Of course if they can escalate profits by promoting lower royalty members they would, or else they would be complete fools. The administration is answerable to stock holders. However in the process you step on some contributors that were there building the company. So what, suppliers of files come and go. All replaceable, no one infallible.
Wait a minute! is there no moral in business? nope its business, profit, profit, profit!!

Of course in a year or two comes the day as always do when the Director of content turns around and say " hey we have only pictures of models, food, hamburgers, pizzas, babies and flowers left to show!  most of the others, the specialized content pulled their portfolios and left. All the other main agencies have it but we DO NOT.

I think you have to be naive to the point of utter stupidity, blindfolded and a fruit-cake in search of a brain, NOT to understand that SS, have done exactly this.
You can not blame them! after an IPO, company is public and so on. First thing that happens and for obvious reasons is an 80% change of administration and they DO NOT KNOW! and do not have to know anything about PHOTOGRAPHY. Its honorable positions.