He isn't exactly worse than Laporte, while Coquard & Bouhanni haven't gotten their act together as well for some time and thus on paper are equal.
I would say that Coquard has gotten his act together now. Finally, his response to not getting a Tour wildcard was to win races and put them in contention for next year's wildcard selection process instead of throwing a tantrum and doing nothing for the remainder of the year, thus allowing ASO to see that they were right in not selecting them.