Why is the jacket sleeve duplicated from the shirt sleeve not in one step with the rest of the jacket?

posted to: Separating Pieces

I'm wondering why the jacket sleeve is duplicated from the shirt sleeve not in one step with the rest of the jacket? Both jacket parts are created by the same techniques (as shirt part duplicates with SHIFT + D and then expanded with ALT + S along the vertex normals). The edge bridging to the jacket sleeve would be unnecessary.