Question: No string thru on the Bongo?…

Hey y’all! I’ve been really enjoying the Bongo that I got about a week ago, but I have a question that I wasn’t sure if anyone knew the answer to or not. With the Bongo being one of the high end basses on the market, what’s with the lack of a string thru design on it? From what it seems, that’s generally the superior way to install strings on a bass. Was there some sort of reason that Ernie Ball decided to not go this way with it? Or was it possibly just a cost cutting decision?