Well crap I just recorded an amazing video of myself stumbling all over that model haha. It is still uploading. You get 16 minutes of bliss listening to my calming voice.
Another thing is you’ve got 160 vertices that are duplicated on this model. I hit M + B and poof you’re mesh data stayed the same but your vertex count went down by like 160 or so.
I’ll let you know when it is uploaded to youtube. If you are content after watching it and want me to delete it, just let me know.
My advice may not be the best advice but this is my thought process working through assumed constraints on pieces I felt you didn’t want altered while solving the poles issues.
