Figure skating is not just athletic contests, fortunately. It is equally weighted among technical challenges and artistic appeals. I hope this is still the case.
It is apparent that after his performance, even Joubert himself was visibly disappointed.
And Joubert should be disappointed it wasn't his best skate. He would have had a bit of a cushion if he had landed that 4/3.
But it's one of those cases of where even if the choregraphy could be better, I think that Joubert's program does have artistic merit. And he has good basic skating skills as well to back that up. Yes, I want harder choregraphy. But I will take harder jumps over harder choregraphy.