Marketing 101, if there isn't sufficient consumer demand for the product that you make, you are likely to lose money making it.
Remington started making short action bolt action rifles in 1948, along 70 years, and if there had been sufficient consumer demand for a longer magazine box, it is reasonably likely that no matter how tone deaf Remington seems to be, they would have redesigned the short action family that started with the 722 to meet that demand.
