This is an interesting set of points regarding McKenzie's misrepresenations of Greg and Bowers. I wonder, have these misrepresentations produced any negative practices in textual criticism or editing?

Though the misrepresentations of Greg and Bowers are clear, is it not the case that bibliography had, by the 1980's become more of a social science? In practice, had it not moved "away from enumerative and descriptive tasks towards the study of the conditions in which texts . . . are created, transmitted and received?"