Still, they didn't win the Worlds because of their FD. And perhaps the difference in the FD scores would have been bigger if Virtue/Moir were not a recently out of juniors team vs. an established team like Delobel/Schoenfelder. Anyway, you are also at least partially right of course.Semantics. They needed that program to win their world title, did they not? No FD = no world title.
Regardless, it was a virtual tie in the FD with Virtue & Moir anyway.