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Was it inadvertent? or was it an incapability?
A very salient point in this discussion.
There are many skaters -- I would say, among the ladies, most -- who have never in their lives done a proper triple Lutz jump off an outside edge, and never will. Yet the IJS point structure directs them to put it in their program anyway. Take the 1 or 2 point hit on GOEs and go on with your program.
I do not see any practical difference in inventing a new de jure jump, the flutz, with a base value of 4.0, and the current practice of encouraging the de facto jump, the Lutz "e", with a base value of 6.0 and a required -2.0 in GOE.