Turnover does not wait for an empty room
The window between one tenancy ending and the next listing going live is measured in days, and the photographs are usually taken while the last tenant's furniture is still in place. The alternatives are listing with somebody else's sofa in the frame, or waiting for a reshoot that costs you the week.
Occupied-to-vacant removes the furniture from the photograph, including the shadows and reflections it cast, which is the part that gives a careless removal away. What it does not do is change the room.
Clutter and condition are different things
This is the distinction the whole product is built around, and it matters more on rentals than anywhere else because rental photos are shot fast and defects are common.
Removing a laundry basket, a bin or a stack of post is tidying. Removing a damp patch, a cracked tile or a hole in a door is concealing a defect, which is prohibited outright in several markets and is not made acceptable by a disclosure line. Duskly refuses the second, and the geometry and finish checks reject a render that quietly did it anyway.
The disclosure still applies
A rental listing is a listing. If the photo has been altered, the expectation is that it is disclosed and, in the markets that require it, that the unaltered original is available. Each paid listing returns the wording for every surface you publish to and the original paired with the edit, so the obligation costs a paste rather than a phone call.