Quins success is based on a very basic, well known formula. A dominant pack headed by Marler and Louw allowing gifted half backs to dictate play. It makes for entertainment. If you have an occasionally dominant pack giving the ball to a 10 or 12 to kick it doesn't. Jones is trying to be too clever to feed his own ego and in doing so is providing zero entertainment and patchy results.
This. I do not think Jones understands that England fans really value 6Ns games and want to do well. And that given the resources and money spent, coming 5th isn't good enough. He ought to have got that in 2018 when England had their longest losing run in recent times, only rescued by Danny in SA, on tour. It may well be that all that matters to Jones is the RWC, but in many ways, for the big teams, you probably only need to win two difficult games to win it.....and England are always capable of beating any team......usually having access to a monster pack. Otherwise, 91 and 07 wouldn't have happened.
SL's team put 38 points on NZ in an AI and fulfilled a very awkward three test tour of NZ......So the SF win, whilst good, wasn't unique...and England's lows under Jones have been ineptly poor. Both in selection and play. And yet when the opportunity comes to move the play on and have alternatives, they seem to be rejected. Or some rather bizarre selection like Daly at FB is persisted with regardless or really good players rejected (Brad and Nick Isiekwe come to mind)
Jones is a fab one off coach. The coach to win a game for your life - as the saying sort of goes - but he does seem to get a bee in his bonnet which can restrict his thinking. Not alone in the coaching world - but the loss to Scotland really ought to have been the warning last 6Ns - but no - England were playing similarly vs Ireland in the last game.....