I think it is also a kind of suppression. There is no any technical problem to make any look and taste at least similar to something well-known. I met soy meatballs that looked like real ones, with chicken-like taste. They was more expensive than real chicken ones, but that's another story. :)

Meanwhile, I always wondered, what is the target audience for soy products disguise as meat. Normal people will definitely just prefer real meat. So, it should be vegans. But the point of veganism is refusal of meat. So why the person who consciously refused meat will want a food that will look and taste like meat, instead of eating same soy beans or whatever soy product as it is, without masquerading meat? What is the poiint? If you still want to eat meat, it is kind of hypocrisy to declare yourself a vegan. There is also another possible target audience - f.e. Orthodox Russians have a tradition to hold a fast before great holidays - Easter, Christmas and so on, when you don't have to eat meat unless you hard working or travelling. Some kind of will training, and whatever excersise. May be they are an audience of soy "meat"? But the sole idea of fasting is to consciously limit yourself from eating that tasty meat. It will have no any sense in fasting if you will eat food that resemble meat, but formally it is not a meat. Hypocrisy again. So, it appears that "meat" made from soy, or whatever plants is a food only for hypocrites. :)