Very interesting. This is basically what Raphael Aruturian was complaining about in his recent interview with respect to Mao Asada. Arutunian felt that the ISU should have phased the wrong edge rule into the CoP gradually, starting at the lower levels, so that elite skaters like Mao wouldn't suddenly find themselves up the creek.
The wrong edge rule has been in CoP from the beginning; the only difference this year is that after four seasons of the judges not deducting it according to the rules, the callers have been given the responsibility of enforcement. How do you enforce it gradually? How many warnings do the skaters need? In my opinion, they are giving skaters the two full seasons before the next Olympics to work on their jump technique, as well as due warning to the kids in juniors. (Although Ms. Zhang appears not to have gotten the memo.)
Under 6.0, the judges could do whatever they wanted, rolled into a single mark. I don't remember seeing any rules under 6.0 that caused a flutz to be treated as a flip or a lip to be treated as a lutz in the Zayak rules, or to give no credit to a flutz or lip because it wasn't a defined jump. Maybe they deducted for Bobek's, Suguri's, Hughes' and Cohen's, etc. flutzes -- which is a "wrong edge" jump -- or Arakawa's, Sebestyen's, and Meier's, etc. lips, and maybe they took off a tad for a lip than for a lutz, because they thought it was a harder jump, or maybe they only deducted for flutzes, or maybe they deducted for Meier's lip, because she was a newbie, but left Sebestyen's alone. No one knows; it's all wrapped up in that one little mark.
Mathman said:
This, as Joe has pointed out, is a double whammy under the New Judging System. Because, if you try, say, a triple flip + so-called-triple loop combo, then the rules discourage you from also doing a solo triple loop (that is, a real triple loop). So the true loop jump falls by the wayside at the topmost level.
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Where in the data is this supported? The few skaters who do 3X/3Lo usually have flip combo and lutz combo, as well as solo lutzes and flips in their program. By the Zayak rules, they can only have two triple repeats. What encourages skaters to drop the solo loop is points: both a flip and lutz score more than a loop. Why leave points on the table?
Pre-rotation penalty may discourage skaters from doing a 3X/3Lo combination in the first place. Arakawa's underrotated 3Lz/3Lo in Dortmund was widely noted, and she was dinged for underrotated 3/3's in the 2004-5 season.
At present, I think it is Asada. 
Joe has been hammering away at the flutz issue for years. At first he was a lone beacon in a sea of darkness. Then, little by little, we have all come around to see the point. Even the ISU seems ready to acknowledge the problem.
