No, but Bunn did remove even the slightest shred of competence from him, and anger at multiple crappy portrayals tends to build up if nothing alleviates it. Which Bunn failed to do.
The only good portrayals of Scott that happened during Bunn's time were when someone else got to write him.
The writer for an O5 story needs to be interested in all of them, whereas Bunn only cared for 1 of the 5, and boy did it show.