In the past, jump is measured comprehensively; takeoff, air position, axis, rotations, landing and flow, speed, continuity, height. all these elements needs to be executed with qualitative merits, rightfully so. That's why Rachael Flatt didn't score much and almost always subject to penalized evaluation despite her consistency in landing. I wonder if Flatt is a Russian and competed today, how she could have scored.
Not really. Judges were extremely lenient about flutzes and under-rotations back then...which is what killed Asada's Olympics chances because she was conditioned that her slightly UR 3-3 and 3A was OK and her flutz was not a big deal. By the time the judges start getting stricter about jumps Asada was too old to correct her jumps.