I 150% agree with most of that although Andy certainly did get beaten, just in many ways he didn't lose

He maybe did seem on the backfoot a bit too much ( and it's something to consider ) but it was great play by Novak and he often continued to be on the backfoot only because he was somehow still in rallies at all. And when it could be his defense was not passive as in some days of old. I have rarely seen such ongoing awkward looking to deal with return shots under pressure as from both of them and then dealt with well.