Remember, I specified "beentzy" wings worthless for anything except making the poor misbegotten possessor, thereof, more cumbersome, less well balanced and, ultimately, less fit to survive. Why should anything have "beentzy" wings, if wings evolved from arms (or front legs)? What, you think they grew wings and then lost their arms? You've been playing too much Spyro the Dragon.
And the artist renderings are based on about 9 pretty good casts, like this:
Interestingly, some of them show feather development on the hind legs, too, which is a pretty good indication that feathers had a purpose before the animals had wings as we know them today.
Nice try.
Okay, I'll play your shell game:
Explain this: How did the relatively huge hind legs (with or without feathers) which no doubt made flight impossible for eons make the creature more fit for survival during those scores of millions of years while its aforementioned legs became more spindly and, therefore, less able to walk, run and hunt but not yet skinny enough to facilitate flight?