Well, it could have always gotten even worse if the dreaded "Mick Taylor was better for the Stones than Ron Wood"-follow up discussion would have reared its ugly head!
BTW, Mick T was a more accurate bass player too as can be heard here (Wyman wasn't at the session for that particular song). You can tell it's Mick because he follows Charlie's bass drum more closely than Bill W ever did.
As if he had thought to himself "
I've heard that in other bands, the bassist locks in with the bass drum, perhaps we should try that for once ...".
Not knocking Bill though, he was idiosyncratically great, just not much of a bass drum follower, but not everyone has to be.