No, I don't agree with judges here. Not because I see some big artistry in Trusova's performance - but because of judges double standarts. In fact, if the same program with the same jumps was skated by a man - it would recieve much higher PCS (and I am not talking about factoring difference here). Moreover, it is quite common to have 2/3 of the free of multiquadsters men as a jumping drill - and even Nathan is not exception here. Yet if that is a woman - it's suddenly is a fault while for men it's not even viewed as something deserving lowering PCS - such skating is natural and expected of them. Judges admits the right of men to have both feminine and masculine programs and can acclaim both ways of expressing yourself - but they denies the right for women to have masculine programs to be assessed positively - so they just can't see it as a proper program at all unless it's a feminine skating.
Either you should raise the PCS for multiquadsters women to the level comparable of top men - or lower the PCS of multiquadsters men for having jumping drills instead of programs. If you are not gonna do it - I will continue to consider complains about lack of Trusova's artistry or claims about her deservedly low PCS as hypocritical crap.
While I agree with the sentiment that men and women should be judged equally, and so that any man that skates an empty program with just jumps should be penalised for it, Sasha really doesn't have emotions at all. There is also almost no connect with the music. At least Nathan Chen's choreography and step sequence are expressive outlets, for instance. (but I would agree that Boyang Jin's program last season certainly was bland) We should totally have separate PCS and TES judges, even though ISU has something against more transparent judging (hmm I wonder what that might be)
Also, would you like the entire ladies' field to be subject to the same degree of technical scrutiny as Yuzuru at ACI this year? While I'm all for calling URs when they're there, I don't think a large number of women's lutz edges and URs would continue to be unnoticed (Satoko would get murdered, for one). There was a post on the forums a while ago about how they did not wish to see judging protocols filled with carrots and how that would ruin the sport. I'm ok with that. Are you?