Let me know how the encounter comes out. Then we can resume this discussion. Considerations of style, of preference, and, yes, of purpose and intent, seem inevitably to intrude. GThom is actually closer to Mark than to either Matt or Luke. After all, the amount of Synoptic material in Thos is tiny with respect to the total Synoptic material.
Some arbitrary omissions are almost mandatory.
But let's consider it. Neither, obviously, did the Thos compiler.