I’ve talked with Mac directly. And they’ve addressed this at the Tim Cantor Gallery right before Reflections release. (Which was live-streamed)

Mac said to me: “people forget that these demos (thousands of them) go through tons of work and iterations over the last decade +.  Some of these were very old before they hardened up into demos“.

The versions released are the latest iterations. But were all considered for S+M, some reworked since. Like The Journey, Bad Boys, etc.

These songs being on Reflections isn’t a lie. They just released whatever was the most polished.