"""""""You can recover the entire surface on the piece on the left even if shrinking has been applied. If shrinking has been applied you can still recover a full cylinder surface for the piece on the right """"""""

Yup, and you cant recover any of it in 3dcoat! So, apparently, the originating application is not "useless"............ Like, the all quad output and specialty seam falloff tools from boolean operations in the Braid Art tools!