This is not the naturalistic style, it does not look like a tree, this is not the classical style, it does not look like a bonsai, this is the sculptural style. It is a sculpture that has no desire to look either like a tree or a bonsai.
My feeling is that way too man lives are styled to like like a plastic juniper that wants to look like the ideal pine bonsai. Somehow like an old man on stage acting to look like an old woman that is plying an old man - but a poor actor.