I really don't think Acorn intentionally distorted them as well. SAI does some really super smooth resizing and may have been hard for her to notice, so I believe her when she says she wasn't aware that you could hold shift to keep it from distorting.

I think because of how she feels about this person, not so much that she was sick, she just became over zealous when she thought she was finding multiple traces and didn't realize just how much distortion was going on. I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt in this case.