I'd suggest that we not restart the discussion on realism from a month ago. It's a debate that can touch on uncomfortably personal matters and as you say, is of little relevance anyway in a game that has so many other unrealistic elements. I think to many folks' relief we'd successfully moved on from that so let's not go backwards.
I think we've probably done the fact that animating fat bodies is extra work to death too. Clearly it would, but it's Larian's job to decide whether the benefit justifies the effort based on what players want. And, as players, we are free to state what that is.
