^^^^Yeah, basically something like that. It's about body learning....practice. You get better at something you do more often. It's as simple as that. Any time I do pullups in particular more than just once a week (which is most of the time) I make better progress on them, assuming I don't overdo them.

You have to think about it logically. It really doesn't need any fancy science if you do. You want to get better at pullups. They give you trouble. But all this time what have you prioritized? The thing you are better at (in general, I mean, notwithstanding learning JS rows)..rows. Now playing to your strengths is good but certain movements in themselves play to your strengths and improve them. Pullups is one of those.

But I'm not talking some extreme thing. You know like Pavel with his "greasing the groove" scenario where he talks about doing something 3 times a day. That may be fine and well for someone obsessed with bodyweight exercises but it gets a little muddy for someone engaged in some serious strenght training.

But it's very similar to the reason I have you doing box squats on lower 2 with more volume. All that low intensity repping helps your body learn the movement. So when you switch it to heavy work you'll be much more successful in a shorter period of time. But with the squats you have the ability to change the resistance and do a lot of volume. With pullups you can't change the resistance (unless you use the assisted pullups thingy..which is not the same exercise) so you up the frequency. In a perfect world, if you could pull it off, doing something more often with less volume would work better, to tell the truth. But either way works very well.

The thing with negatives is about people who can't do one rep. You do negatives until you can pull off a rep unassisted. Then you could do a rep and some more negs until you get better, so on and so forth.

A basic progression recommendation: Right now I don't know what kind of rest periods you are using. With the reps you are getting right now I would take nice long rests, at least 3 minutes, until you can pull off around 8 for 3 sets. Then start shortening the rest periods. Before you know it 10 reps won't be a problem.

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If you act sanctimonious I will just list out your logical fallacies until you get pissed off and spew blasphemous remarks.