All the flapping really started for me when EJ took over England and I can only assume his message was that Danny didn’t do enough to influence referees at the breakdown or scrum. It’s what we felt made him better than Youngs who did that quite regularly and had the ball snaffled from under him.
I think if Danny was dropped from England with no obvious path back, he’d play a more natural game and we’d see the best of him again and if his form got him a recall into the World Cup squad then so be it.
His box kicking has always been atrocious though, so no real change there.