I know that because of the ur scoring rules Mao did get a lot of partial credits for her "triples" so it is all to illustrate how one skater can do 9 triples and another can do 4 and the person with 4 wins If they have the pcs and spin and step bv and goe. So If radionova or someone does 9 or 10 triples but has a hand down are aren't perfect and amazing it won't matter-like It didn't matter with Julia vs Mao.
Mao's GOE for her non-jump elements (spins+steps) was 4.9 and Julia's was 4.37, so it was not a big difference. The gap in total GOE (Julia 2.38 vs. Mao 4.26) comes mostly from the fact that Julia had low GOE on jumps, -1.99 (she got -2.4 on her first 2 jumps passes alone and small positive GOE on the rest of them).