Are you saying the rules as they are written are wrong, or that they are not being followed? I think a lot of times I'm not able to follow your logic (and I'd like to understand your positions better) because you tend to argue events are being judged wrong under they way you think the rules should be. There's bad judging and there's bad rules, but I think it's important to distinguish the two because they are the result of different motivations.
The RULES of figure skating as it stands
don't explain the details of figure skating in the first place! This is part of the problem! The judges ARE left to their own accord in many respects and thus it comes down entirely to an understanding of the sport that is nowhere to be found in the rule book. This is compounded by the problem of judges lacking a mathematical understanding of what their scores really mean. Skating is now determined by math. Everything has a value. So how do you properly assess the value of something you don't know how to add up in the first place? It's like telling someone to fill a bag of oranges to weigh the same as a bag of potatoes, without ever telling them how much the bag of potatoes weighs in the first place. So they just guesstimate how many oranges should go in the bag and in the end the result is who knows what.
The details of skating are known and passed down through communal understanding. You can take people like Dick Button and have them explain these things that are nowhere to be found (at least not with much specificity or importance) in the rulebook. Qualities like posture, foot placement, arm usage, the form of a spin, musicality, the effectiveness of a footwork sequence, the character of a program, exactly how bad a jump landing is, the importance of extension, depth of edge, timing of crossovers. All of these things used to be valued and were directly awarded in "the second mark", in way that was immediately "make or break". You either tried to give the best performance possible with respect to what excited an audience or moved them or created a pleasing look on the ice, or else you lost the second mark and thus probably lost the competition since it was the tie-breaking score.
We as learned spectators can look at performances in front of us and objectively try to compare and quantify these different aspects. We KNOW and AGREE, based upon DECADES of skating knowledge and what the general universal standard has always been, that something like falling on a jump should be a big loss in points. Yet, in the scoring system we have, it often isn't that much. If someone falls on a Quad Lutz attempt these days they still get as many points as a satisfactory Triple Axel. If someone gives a poor performance or has a program of very lacking choreography, we know they should take a big hit in their "second mark", the PCS these days. Yet that is generally not the case. People just get relatively set scores, based upon their reputation, and the judges knocking the overall PCS down by 1 or 2 points for a bad performance (or bumping the PCS up 1 or 2 points for an amazing performance) ultimately has no real effect at all. The technical score matters WAY more than those 1 or 2 points, so actually a jump being called as underrotated or not matters more in the the current system than the ENTIRE program. The ENTIRE program!
Think about it! 1 degree of rotation missing in a jump these days can make a bigger difference than 4 minutes of how a skater moved their body and used their blades and performed to an audience. The difficulty and effectiveness of that choreography/interpretation and the energy and skill it took to perform it across an entire program matters less than one jump being seen as slightly underrotated. The PCS still do "make a difference", in that it's an amount of points on the table, but the way they are awarded has very little relation to all of the qualities that SHOULD be getting rewarded. Someone landing a bunch of quads and having a requisite amount of transitions and speed and overall packaging is now automatically synonymous with "high PCS". There is no real differential in how the details and artistic success of the performances are scored, the things that make people care about figure skating the most.
