He is a quantity over quality rider much like AP was only without the JP retainer. Without doubt he will be multiple times Champion Jockey and ride a bucket load of winners like AP did (wouldn’t surprise me if he challenges AP’s total winners tally when all is said and done) but I am not sure he will be riding loads of quality G1 type winners.
I doubt you can really do both in the current climate, you either have to prioritise the daily grind of a Jockey’s Title challenge (travelling here, there and everywhere for winnners) or instead go down the quality route which is much more difficult now given that pretty much every trainer (and most top owners) have a retained jockey already, so it is much harder to consistently get on the favoured horses in the big races.
According to the RP Statistics page, Bowen has had 937 total rides in this current NH season which to the surprise of absolutely nobody is far and away the most rides by a NH jockey, to put it into stark perspective, only Brian Hughes (562) and Sam Twiston-Davies (544) have managed more then 500 total rides (although James Bowen is currently on 497).
Sean’s 937 rides is already 35 more than his total rides from last season so I don’t see him changing his mindset anytime soon – he will likely need to hope that his main source of winners (Olly Murphy) starts unearthing some higher class horses that can compete in the G1s that he can ride or alternatively get a big retainer…..but then the latter may affect his ability to keep being Champion Jockey.