I dont know how to make you understand this. Sleds shift up or build speed when under rpm. If clutched properly, the idea behind riding a properly clutched sled is to lay on the throttle, it maintains peak rpm in the highest hp area of the motor the whole time and builds speed from this rpm range. Obviously you have to let off on the sled to manuever in trails or try and make corners, thats what the powervalves and other features of those motors are for. Sleds do alot of things that have been deemed stupid for a banshee on this forum though. 2 into 1 pipe for example, comes factory and aftermarket on alot of sleds. I put in my time as a certified tech at a seadoo/skidoo dealer back in the 90's. First things that usually went when they came in for performance parts was a clutch kit, 2" track, pipes, jet kits, and the silencer boxes.
A good example of a pretty badly tuned factory cvt is the rhino. It maintains about 5600 rpm as it runs up through the clutch, then it wings out to almost 8k rpm after it gets through the sheave and it uses the remaining engine rpm from 5600-8000 rpm to build speed.