I get what you're saying, and I get the difference too.
Yet I remember seeing a lettercol where Byrne was saying he was doing pencils in a way where he tried to lift the pencil from the paper as few times as possible. Is that slipping, or a creator trying something the rest of us might not get?
As this is a deeply commercial medium, maybe they should not expect to be so indulged. Maybe Bagley is straight up Not What I Was (for whatever reason).
Could be guilty as charged. Just wonder if we need some more evidence.