ABWH came out at a time when Yes was on hiatus, but the official lineup was still the 90125 band. I grabbed ABWH the moment I saw it, because to me, the "real" Yes was back. Yeah, yeah, arguments about "real" Yes and official and all that. Didn't matter. It was a chance to hear four of the five main guys together again.
It does suffer from a lack of Chris Squire, no question, but they had Tony Freakin' Levin on bass, and he's no slouch, definitely a worthy guy to at least cover the low end in a group like this. The problem IMO is that they didn't let him loose. He's low in the mix and lacking the punch which Chris would've provided, but that's not his fault at all, and in fact I find it odd that they didn't let him loose. Let him thump, let him ring, let him pluck, let him sing. I know Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, and Howe were the "name" guys, but if Levin had been more of an equal member in that band, it would have been a stronger band.