"skillful skating to pleasant music" is a perfect way to describe to Chan, I really enjoy his skating, he's a master at his craft but I've never felt he connected with or embodied music, except maybe mack the knife program. Contrast that to even a young Yuzu doing R&J in Nice and how perfectly he's able to embody music and create a story. He was a prodigy in that and it's only gotten better.
For Rondo not even an edited orchestral version would have been as perfect as the version created by Shinya Kiyozuka with Yuzu's skating in mind imo. If I watch silent or music swapped clips of it, my mind fills in the piano for me anyways
Also about some skaters skating the same program to different music, I think there's more variations between different versions of Chopin than some skaters have between completely different programs. That's why I've always found complaints of Yuzu being repetitive especially annoying.