Anyone leet gets above 7 and it doesn't matter what they did or didn't do in their program. I mean, I like Memola on ice. He is striking. 7.5 seems good to me for interpretation for him because he is different, even if it's his limbs and height. I am glad he gets higher marks than someone who doesn't stand out. It's great to see someone who is 6 feet show that figure skating can be done at that height, not just 5 feet 3".
Equally, nobody who saw Trusova live could possibly not see how animated and fiery her skating is next to literally everyone else before (my time) and/or since. Not to mention that Trusova and the rest of the Russian women continue to show that women can have jumping content that is the same as men's on the high level overall in juniors. It's great.
I am in favor of rewarding the exceptional stuff, versus pushing forward the only decent but all around. Exceptional talent must receive exceptional marks, particularly for things that nobody else can do.
Of course, it is hysteria, and of course it's anti-Malinin.
They propose to chop a jumping pass in singles and in pairs, greatly reducing the number of jumping passes we'll get to see and increasing the length of the segments of the program that do not have jumps.
They wouldn't give 4A BV it deserves for the absolute gorgeousness and difficulty of the jump.
Someone even proposed to increase penalties for a fall, making it pretty much the same as popping a jump, while a fall with a full rotation is >>> pop.
How's all that, taken together, minor?
Minor is taking penalty from 2A on the end of combos to equate them to triples and helps create more combos other than +2/3T--something that skaters enthusiastically implemented. Minor is messing with spins' features annually.
Cutting a jumping pass is not a minor alteration, particular when it's not balanced by proposals that increase focus on jumps and give something to those who want jumps in figure skating.
I think the ONLY rule in favor of having more jumps is taking Euler out of the count as a jump and permitting longer cascades. Where are the other balancing proposals in favor of more and bigger jumping? What about permitting cascades in SP, allowing women to jump separate 3A and quads in SP, allowing all 3 combos to be cascades? Russians showed absolutely gorgeous cascades in the Jumping tournament. So fun...would love to see like 4-5 jumps cascade as a program opener or closer instead of a long spin.
I will answer you, but the following points are not only directed towards you.
1 There are no height categories in skating. If there was a category 1.90m+ Memola would surely win that one, no doubt, but there is no rule (and there shouldn't be one) saying you get a bonus if you have a specific size or shape and perform difficulties.
2 It absolutely makes no sense to see this as anti-Malinin. If anything Malinin will profit from the proposed new rules. In his worlds' jumping layout he had one combo and one sequence. None of those would have to be removed. He did not repeat any jump (seen regardless of revolutions) more than 3 times - other than Kaori. Kaori is actually the one who would have to change her "winning" recipe with her many toeloop combos.
All that Ilia would have to do is take out his 4S (his lowest scoring jump). Yes, that costs him points against Yuma with a bv of 9.70 while Yuma would likely take out his 3F (5.83). But Ilia will still be able to
Ilia is able to do his 4A instead of 3A in the short and wins about 4-5 points - he has also jumped 4-4 combos in training and could do a 4Lz-4T or something. In the free, within the proposed rules, he can still upgrade his content significantly. For him the options seem to be almost without limits. Just playing now: he could do for instance a 4A-3T - 4S - 4F - 4Lo - 4Lz-eu3S - 4A-3A - while Kagiyama and Siao Him Fa have limited options of upgrading. Yes, they can include another quad, but they will never get close to Ilia.
What might limit him is his stamina - not the rules.
To "target" Ilia one would have to come up with completely different suggestions. Like make the quality of the step sequence the one and only decider. Or the quality of gliding. But with the current system, even if you leave them just one single jump in the short and in the free - Ilia would do his 4A, done.
And even the 0 base value for a fall - which like I said I don't expect to go through, I don't see much support for it - the ones who would have felt it at last worlds would have been Kagiyama, Uno, Miura. One could almost think they are targeting the Japanese skaters...
Ilia would have to play by the new rules like anyone, he would have to adjust, but it would not keep him from winning.
3 Pairs has become such a boring discipline to watch. The only thing that is intriguing is who actually wins because it's so close atm. But the programs themselves - there was one program I really liked last season, Kam/O'Shea's East of Eden (but I'm really not a fan of that team). The other ones were dreadful, only checking boxes -done, done, done. Okay, Ghilardi/Ambrosini's vampire was also not bad - but that's about it, not bad. The other ones could have skated without music, without step sequence, just doing their acrobatic tricks, it wouldn't have made much of a change. I can't get too excited about the proposed rules for them, because I simply don't care enough about pairs to... care... but... yes, a change in the outlet of pairs' programs is desperately needed. I would prefer longer programs instead- make them a minute longer and you can still do the elements and gain time for more skating. But I know that it's simply unrealistic. Already people, organizations and broadcasters are complaining about the length of events. I'd be fine with less skaters, but overall there is no support for that. So... reducing the number of elements seems to be the only realistic solution. Personally I would probably make twists and death spirals optional because I find them very boring, but again... just unrealistic.
In pairs I think it is most obvious that this is not targeting anyone, but that the majority of viewers is just fed up with the state of the programs.
4 I wouldn't call taking out a jumping passage minor, but in the end, the effect will actually likely be minor. I don't expect the results to change. I don't expect seriously better programs. I see it as a step in the right direction which shows that at least there is still some interest in good, interesting programs. Apparently taking this step into this direction is what bothers you, not because of the actual effects, but just as a symbol. Because no, it's not a sign of "we want jumping to become more important than it's now".
And why should it??
It's already so important.
Oof, I was doing some statistical stuff and so on, but honestly I'm just too tired to go on now and I still have to work... don't get money from the ISU for this, so... I'll leave it at this.
They will need to call it what it is, "Air revolutions" or some such. I still don't think the X Games audience will give a hoot. And the "regular" figure skating audience will say, whatever this is, it ain't figure skating. 
