Tried to save a badly cracked and warped cherry bowl… it did not go as planned.

Making silk purses from sows ears and spinning straw into gold are long shots everyone should try from time to time.

I seldom spend time on the broken pieces because I can make two or three new good ones in the time I would spend fixing the broken one which most likely still looks broken when I try fixing it.

I would use tapered bowtie pewa instead of the seagull patches to get a snug fit without gaps. Cracked and warped bowls are good "what if" projects since there's no concern about things going south on you. There's a woodturner's axiom: "It was firewood before turning it, and it can still be firewood".

I strongly agree with what Bill said; we learn through experience especially when things go south. It is really your advice and thoughts from this project that are most important. Sometimes we end up dealing with too many things at once, which makes it hard to sort out what we are thinking.
Break it into three questions for yourself. 1) was the bowl something worth saving? Maybe in the last 4 years your form and style have improved beyond what this bowl represents. 2) how did the abalone inlay work? Maybe you like how it turned out on a slender crack but not a wide one. 3) what do you like/dislike about the seagull ties? Maybe you think the shape might work but need better edge boundaries, or perhaps you simply don't like seagulls.