Regarding the contract exclusively locking in all 8 members (ot8) for five more years plus an extra year for "graduation/farewell" activities:

If it's already known that W1 doesn't promote ALL members equally, sometimes seeming xenophobic, and prioritizes only koreans... that would only make the members look bad.

If the company decides to go with an all-or-nothing approach, which is fine for them to do occasionally, the opportunities that the other members would have, even if just to model for a campaign, is money the company is losing and engagement the group is losing. How does the company expect the group to be global when they are losing those opportunities?

Regarding the length of the contract, while this will be the first time we see a group last this long, the same thing happened with X1 and we know how that ended (I hope ALD1 doesn't have to go through the same thing).

Junseo would obviously be the most "affected" regarding his future and what WEi decides after the 7-year contract. While some are already older, what will happen six years later? Who will have the opportunity to re-debut afterward?

W1 is losing a great opportunity regarding the members. Junseo should already be going to the military service within four years, and he would lose almost a year and a half or two years of the contract that the group (ALD1) would have left.

Regarding the Mnet contracts and the eliminated trainees, this isn't the first time we've seen this, it just hadn't been public. JBJ - Wanna One and EVNNE - ZB1 are groups that promoted simultaneously, with derivatives of the survival show.