It seems to me that there is less to this draft than meets the eye. The basic proposition is that incompetence vitiates the right to effective assistance. But you do not actually show the standards applicable, which would somewhat undercut the breadth of the argument you are making. And you do not show why one form of bad legal research or incompetent writing is either more unconstitutional or more likely than all the other causes of bad legal practice that either do or do not rise to the level of a constitutional failure when they happen to occur in criminal as opposed to non-criminal proceedings.

Would it not have made some sense to consider the role of bar discipline as opposed to Sixth Amendment relief against criminal conviction? Your only significant example concerned the submission of civil litigation paper containing unchecked citations, which both happens all the time and is handled in the case you show by sanctions. At what point should bar discipline be appropriate?