It wasn't necessarily always a huge issue until the Carlivati era, where he began actively playing against their plans for Luke (addressing his alcoholism, reuniting Luke and Laura). But no one made Guza II put all that dialogue in other actors' mouths dissing Luke and Laura; that was the writing team.
I will say I think Tony and Jonathan did a beautiful job rewriting their last scenes, which were probably typically functional RC hackwork, in 2015. The final scenes was just way above the level of the rest of the dialogue on the show at that point. The legacy of Tony and Luke has always been complicated, good and bad. (Also, Erika Slezak was known to rewrite elements of her scenes on the fly in the mornings with permission from OLTL brass, and would also massage her scene partners' dialogue for them. She and her costars like Jerry VerDorn, Mark Derwin, etc. have talked about it in a complimentary way.)
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