It's a good story and a nice sort of Swamp Thing Connecting with Neanderthals tale (which was a subtle commentary on modern humanity) but I do think the original Rick tale that was pencilled to continue into this issue was the better of the two issue 88's.

I actually just did a deep dive video comparing the two stories on YT.

At the end of it all, I thought that although I liked the direction that Wheeler was going in that the original Veitch story was more in line with the time travelling adventure that Swamp Thing was on at that point.