Same concept as we did not go to the moon back in 1969 with just one mission. It took many stages.
They are fine tuning their process. That's why they did not do a complete harvest.
When I sent the email, I wanted to get the answer right away. A little Psycology here. I said 50% just to do a challenge. He might have gotten pissed off and responded in a non chalant way. No salutation, thank you for your interest, nothing. Just raw answer. But I got what I wanted.
90% "SURVIVAL RATE" see the email body with his response