I think Flan has a very well-developed bullshit detector. Though I think maybe he didn't use it nearly so much until he had worked with Wright & Co. for a while.
It does make me wonder what will happen if anything does happen with SG-1 and/or SGA in the future and the current TPTB are ejected. Very few show writers and/or producers have a following all on their own, except for people like Joss Whedon or Joe Straczynski. The casual viewers see the actors and their characters as representatives of the show, and I think lack of recognition all to themselves just burned Wright, Cooper and Mallozzi up and their bitterness showed in the final product.
Something I'd really like to see is allowing the actors to give more input into how their characters are portrayed. They're the ones giving them nuance, often remembering details writers forget when it's inconvenient to the current script. I sensed a lot of frustration from Joe and other actors about that sort of thing.
There's no guarantee that new TPTB will do any better character or story wise, but they can't exactly get much worse, can they? At least if TPTB get booted, it would give us something new to bitch about, right?