My opinion--if you breed a lesser to a butter, and you get lessers and butters, then like mojave and lesser, they are different.
If you breed lesser to butter, and you get intergrades that you can't identify as one or the other, then they're the same thing.
The fact they both react the same way with the Daddy gene doesn't mean they are the same--you can cross a Russo with a Lesser and get a BEL.
Has RD tried combining the Daddy gene with Mojaves and Russos yet?