If it's easy to do, it's easy to defend against. But he wasn't easy to defend against. Not sure what the quality of first touch has to do speed anyway - unless he was asking his teammates to launch those 50 yard passes slower.
the thing is he was easy to defend against. look at his goal count, look at his assist count, look at his time in italy.
the only thing bergkamp had over henry was vision. pure technique...henry could do everything bergkamp could do with a football and more.