Swat the ball away from the hole

Is not the outcome of both the O P and 18-2a/23 less to do with intention and more to do with definition? In both, the ball was hit with the back of the putter; therefore was it not a backward movement of the club, rather than the forward movement required by definition to make it a stroke?

Would the decision be the same if the swat had been forwards with the face of the putter?