Reading these excerpts from a Gil Kane interview in The Comics Journal (1977).

Also thinking about the TF designers and how they've endlessly re-created G1 to the point of being so slavish that they even build in flaws and animation errors because that's how it was in the 80s and even the non-G1 stuff needs to be G1 and...

(Yes I understand how much of the output I buy. It's still a discussion worth having.)