A long time ago
I has a stand-up argument with a FDC about the integrity of a system plan and asked to see the original. When I pointed out his error he told me "That's the same thing"; when pointing out that this "same thing" had the aircraft almost 250NM in the wrong position he said, but he'll still get to Perth on that route; yes but the aircraft is being 'separated' and it's no-where near where the system or I think it is; so between us we aren't exactly doing a bang up job are we?
The use of "thence planned route" has almost no relevance in our modern automated system, cause what the hell is a planned route? Our system plans very rarely display the 'planned route' anymore cause there is no reference to the 'original'; you only get the now.