I'm really growing tired of constantly having to repeat myself on here. I was just mentioning his actual technique and how watching him today and comparing him to how I remember him is different. I thought he was picture perfect but looking I see he was not. He would constantly swoop his cue all over the place on his stroke and he would even move his body quite a bit. By comparison most of today's top players more closely resemble the robotic approach of snooker players.
Perhaps you "have to repeat yourself", because you come across as a jerk in the way you communicate, and people have learned through experience to dislike your posts.
As far as his "swooping", there was a technique of pivoting through the cue that worked very well on slow cloth, with high deflection cues, while hitting firmly.
Modern pros do not play on slow cloth, and many play with much lower deflection cues, and extremely hard/firm hits are no longer necessary on 95% of pool shots these days.
So, you are judging his stroke, without the requisite knowledge of WHY he stroked that way.
Somebody quote me, as ToiletDweller has me blocked.