I don't get why you keep posting about completely unrelated topics? The point of the thread is to look at ways the sport can be improved. Miki and Alissa are skaters who would likely take totally opposite approaches to their technical layouts, if the rules allowed more flexibility. That's why I brought them up as examples and why people are talking about it.
If a skater repeats both the Salchow and Toeloop, that means they are getting less points. It's not a problem. When a skater focuses on higher point gaining jumps and ignores other ones, though, it becomes comparatively easier to gain points with those jumps because they can just focus on that technique and not worry about the technique of the other type of jump(s) they are leaving out.
I've been thinking about this a lot. On the one hand, skaters being too aware of the bonuses received by putting jumps in later means they will think too much about choreographing the program for technical points rather than pure creativity. On the other hand, difficult jumps late in the program DO deserve extra credit.
For now I propose the time frame should be moved back more. Instead of giving a bonus starting at 50% of the way through the program, it should be at 60% of the way through. Especially difficult jumping passes (3-3's, Triple Axels, Quads) should get a higher bonus as well, not the same flat rate as everything else. The last jump of the program, if placed 90%+ of the way through the program (ie - the very end), should also get an additional bonus (with the same preferential treatment to truly difficult jumps). That way more skaters would save a hard jump for the end, rather than the same old -- Spin + Footwork Sequence + Spin -- which seems to have become the most common way to end a program.
There could also be a new bullet point for GOE scores, with judges being mindful of the jumps that are placed very deep into the program and not just right at the start of the "bonus" section.
By the way, at 2010 Olympics, Takahashi, Kozuka, and Weir all placed a difficult jump element (Triple Axel or 3-3 combination) within that later benchmark of 60% of the way through their program, rather than only 50% of the way through. The two top podium finishers in the eyes of the judges/system both frontloaded all of their most difficult elements, although one of them got more credit for his frontloading (Lysacek) than the other.
I think you're method of giving bonuses if there have to be bonuses is much better than what is going on right now in free skates. I don't think the authors of COP realised just how much the focus would be on that halfway mark. It is not just a bonus period. It is a higher level of free skate. It is a free skate worth much more than the other free skate. Free skate from zero to two minutes or zero to two and a half minutes is like a second short program rather than being a part of the free skate. I know for a while there were two free skates. At the 2003 grand prix final the second free skate was worth 50% of the total. Now they have taken that and brought it under one free skate which I don't think makes any sense.