Why is there no restore to time capsule disk?

It's pretty clear from the previous discussions that, although there's a clear way to backup a Time Capsule's disk via the Airport Utility "Archive Disk ...", there's no easy way to restore a time capsule's disk from an archive.   This lack of restore capability appears to be by design.
Anyone know what the reasoning is for not have a restore time capsule's disk from archive capability?  What's the use case or use cases that the "Archive Disk ..." functionality in Airport Utility is designed to?

The reason Apple does what it does is never revealed. It is as it is.. your role is not to ask why.. but to ask how to do it the way Apple has designed.
Network drive is not easy to restore since you do not have console access or any access to the actual disk utility in the TC itself. You cannot do some things remotely without it.. and Apple do not want you to have that level of control.
Archive is designed so you can backup a full TC (full of TM backups), so you can wipe it and start over. TM needs a lot of space to function effectively. But if you want your old backups you can read them off the archive disk.
And BTW you can restore the items to the TC.. but you do it manually.. ie you plug the USB drive into your computer.. select the items you wish to restore and simply copy them back.

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