Deformed cleat mounting - Was there influence in this design?

http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/bontrager-rl-road-shoes/82609

By now some of you have noticed that a cleat may deform when you tighten it down on a very small shoe. This of course makes it difficult to clip into the pedal.

Well, here is the first time I have seen an entity outside of Bike Fitting get a nice photo of this and explain it well. Unfortunately it is not very flattering for Trek.

Notice the tilt actually puts a valgus cant to the interface. Michael Sylvestor told me he uses our cleat wedges in a valgus direction for one of his shoes (not sure why he did not try to move the foot outward to address the issue...he explained but that is another story for another day). Maybe there was some influence for this in the Trek shoe shown in the link??

Fitters beware when working with these shoes.