I spent a long time typing a reply to one of the comments over at the icenetwork article, but I had a tough time logging in with my FB account, so in the end I have no idea whether it'll eventually show up or not...
What really frustrates me about the way some of Plushy's detractors talk is how they equate their own opinion with objective facts. Perhaps he had fewer transitions than some others during 09/10, but statements about how he "has no choreography" or that "it isn't real skating" comes across to me as both ridiculously over-exaggerated and narrow-minded. Transitions is just one aspect of skating--one that was recently pushed to the forefront. When it comes to Vancouver, I've seen people dismiss the criticism of Lysacek's lack of quad as "whining", or say that "skating isn't just about the quad", but then they themselves equate skating/choreography/artistry with transitions and see nothing wrong with it. And the thing is, in men's skating the quad has frankly been established as an important aspect much longer than putting in as much transitions as possible--in the sense of what the proponents of the "new direction" in skating define as "transitions". To say that he has been "getting away" (the phrase one person used) with "not having transitions" before is kind of like saying the champions of the 80s "got away" with not jumping quads. It makes no sense. (Sorry, again to clarify: just an analogy in terms of logic, I'm not saying that transitions are like quads in this sentence--to me, quads are a much more real and quantifiable development in skating, and much more important in my own opinion.)
I don't even mention artistry, because with Plushy's artistry, perhaps it is really true that either you get it or you don't. (And in any case I think it has nothing to do with transitions.) There are skaters whose style I don't like, and there are times when I've said that "I don't personally see the artistry in this program/skater, in my opinion", but I'm not going to act as if statements like "so-and-so has no artistry" are somehow objective facts.