The bass line sounded a little synthetic to me....personal preference only. Sounded like a keyboard bass in the wrong register, but then, I didn't compare it to the original.
You're right. What was played contained lines "walking" up to the next change well before the hand position would have changed with conventional arranger play.
The fretless bass of the original version is indeed unusually high. This is the original video, remarkable visual tricks for its time of 1986:
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