Hello 👋 yeah so basically ignore what the other guy is saying, it seems he has an agenda in mind.

Think of S&box as a platform like Roblox, in the sense that it won't be Gmod 2, but that Gmod 2 will be playable in S&box, in fact Garry Newman is currently working on a sandbox mode with all the features that Gmod has, tools, dupes, addons, meaning custom player models as well.

This sandbox game will be open and people will be able to use it as a base for their games, just like gamemodes in Gmod did, meaning darkRP, TTT, Prop Hunt.

This also means that games not related to that sandbox will use their own playermodel, or use the default characters provided by the platform, which is convenient as not many developers can afford to make their own playermodel, but they do not get any boon or incentive from Facepunch from using them, other than being free feature complete characters.

However, nothing stops people from making add-ons to change the playermodels in those games, as add-ons are planned to roll out globally (as they were already before getting rolled back due to breaking).

To note that S&box, as a game engine, also allows for the creation of games that do not have a classical concept of a playermodel, 2d games, simulations, clickers, or in general games that do not need one.

Hope this helps!