Q: or did it just wholly shake out that way, unintentionally?
A: i'm going through it in my mind to see if your thesis is even true. ah yes, i think there are some passing tones in the bass, for sure. so it's not true. but moreover there are no scales goals with me. the closest i ever came to a scales goal was this one time when a scalular riff  idea/exercise infected my brain suddenly and i couldn't get it out of my head until i