So you are requesting rumors and hearsay, as I read it?

Koga Miyata And Tout Terrain,also use a KS mount in that location.
and I note the Plietcher 'zoom' model, which Is, via bolts between the foot
and the rest of the stand, is adjustable in length..

seems to me,that is how the torque is controlled, how far off center the bike is leaning.

[I have the Zoom model for mounting on the central KS plate.]