I am disappointed for Tim Lobb of Lobb and Partners who I know - Tim had been the consulting Golf Course Architect for St Georges Hill for the last 12 years and has done some nice work. Knowing Tim he would be disappointed not to have a chance to restore the look of the 8th hole.
I am not involved in consulting work anymore, apart from giving my associates a nice recommendation.
I'm sure Tim Lobb does some great work [I've not seen any of those clubs you mention since he started]. But if he was going to restore the 8th hole, why did he not do it in the course of twelve years working there? It would take about a week's worth of work. Maybe the club weren't ready to go that way, but by the same measure he must not have been pushing them in that direction very hard, either.
I'm sure that Tim Jackson could have restored all of Bel Air, too, if that's what he had wanted to do. He's a talented guy. Instead he drew plans that kept veering further and further away from that.