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Actually, we are trying to demonstrate “soft selection” or “proportional editing”

The history allows us to edit the shape with a different set of points than the actual object, which can be 5 points instead of 500..

The flow was used to demonstrate how to get an already made mass of points surface to a state where it can be manipulated by a small number of points…

The challenge and ultimate use is to just manipulate the surface area of an object. Not really to deform a shape.