Go Canucks !!!! LOL
Ok your explanation sounds very viable and the whole deal with links in links out makes sense in this nature then as they need to find alternative rythms that will work and give relevancy till the system as whole is updated ??? does that make sense ?
If they were to do this then the optimization process of pr + links in and links internal would then be a little obsolete and make optimizing for google a different game for now anyway. In other words the way people have optiized in the past is just that, the past. Untill the new system comes into play the old ways are going to be history.