I knew you were going to say this....its both. I have had some very large storms over the past several years. I agree with you that this is an underlying issue that makes it more difficult...like I said, its not a KU cookbook pattern. However, things can and have still come together. I have had 4 snowfalls of over a foot since 2018. This weekend still could have worked out, but it isn't....that is some bad luck. Were odds worse because of the active jet? Sure.
Its like the odds of a cold winter given CC....it can still happen, but the odds are stacked against it. Well....in this multiyear pattern, large snowfalls happen in this area, but odds are more stacked against it. Sometimes we catch a break, but here we didn't.