Why Do Loadouts Exist, but You Can Only Swap Skins Pre-game?

So the recent addition of map voting has expanded the pre-game phase substantially, yet we’re still stuck with only being able to swap skins before a match begins.

But why is it only skins?

I have over a dozen weapon weapon variants, for instance, and on a few heroes I actually have two different variants, because different variants go better with certain skins than others.

But if I want to swap to a different skin during the pre-game, suddenly, the skin is clashing with the weapon variant, because I was only able to swap the skin.

And it’s clashing with the weapon charm, and the emotes don’t match (e.g. Halloween emotes for Halloween skins), etc.

Why doesn’t that exact pre-game feature allow me to swap loadouts?

And since it doesn’t, what is even the point of loadouts? Why do they exist?

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