I think you guys are overthinking this a bit. GSM is not in business to make Cold Steel better. They are in business of purchasing companies and making an ROI.
Does your clamshell Big Box Store knife come with a reversible/extra clip? What they have is a metric butt-load of knives with scales DESIGNED to have a lefty option but are out of lefty clips. When those are gone, they will either discontinue the model if it is lackluster or problematic to the beancounters, or just order scales not drilled for left handed carry. It's a small percentage of the population. who cares? Gun manufactures sell a ton of 1911s with no ambi safety. If a lefty wants one, then they either need to buy and fit the part or buy a different brand. The manufacturer doesn't care. Plenty of righties to go 'round.
From what I can see from a few tea leaves, I think their business model is: Dangle a carrot to the base. Include LT, make videos that are kinda like watered down Proof...oh hey! a pretty girl!, release a line up of decidedly boring/uninspired/easily scalable knives, keep dangling that carrot that classic designs of upgraded quality are on the way, quietly kill off anything that won't turn a profit within whatever business cycle timeline they are planning on keeping the company before selling it, and finally walk away with a few bags of gold before they unload the husk of a shell that was once Cold Steel on whatever next investment group thinks they can squeeze blood from this stone.