All the sources you quoted referred to the other types, specifically, so your conclusion was surprising.

Knopf, for example, clearly differentiates between the Westerns and the others regarding soil types.

I'm not taking a side - I just think you shouldn't assume that Westerns are like the others.
They might be quite different, either as a result of inherent nature or because of what's available to them.

When I would search for agamas, I was blown away by the extremely different lifestyles of the 2 subspecies I observed(and they would freely hybridize). Their geographical ranges were side by side and one preferred to live on rocks and walls, mostly arboreal; (stellio stellio) while the other, (stellio brachydactyla) would hang out around objects on the sandy floor, living a much more terrestrial way of life.

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