Well I didn't say "everything". I said "almost everything", which is fair. If only 1 out of 5 main characters are the same between versions, almost everything has been changed.
And I really don't think this is something that will take the novelisation rule, because these are the opposite of novelisations.
These were deliberate attempts to create non-DWU versions of DWU stories, as the original poster made clear with quotes from Gary Russell.