We study coefficientwise permutation lifts of reduced polynomial representatives of almost perfect nonlinear (APN) permutations from finite fields to Galois rings. The standard permutation criterion shows that a permutation polynomial over $\mathbb F_{2^m}$ admits such a lift if and only if its formal derivative is nowhere zero on the field. In that case, every coefficientwise lift permutes $\operatorname{GR}(2^k,m)$ for every $k>1$. It is natural to conjecture that the reduced representative of an APN permutation admits no such lift. However, Zhang and Haobo supplied a counterexample to our earlier critical-point conjecture, which also refutes this lifting claim. Their degree-$24$ reduced APN permutation over $\mathbb F_{32}$ has a nowhere-zero formal derivative. We record this example and give an exact linear-image and trace-dual criterion for the absence of rational critical points in quadratic functions. We also obtain explicit non-APN bounds from Janwa-Wilson-Rodier surfaces. For every odd degree $d\ge5$ outside the Gold and Kasami-Welch exponent families, results of Hernando-McGuire and Aubry-McGuire-Rodier yield an absolutely irreducible component defined over the ground field. Applying the Cafure-Matera point estimate gives an explicit threshold above which no polynomial of degree $d$ over $\mathbb F_{2^m}$ is APN. This makes the known qualitative nonexistence result effective. An identity between difference tables extends the bound to polynomials $ax+g(x^2)+c$, where $a\ne0$ and $g$ has an odd degree in the stated range. Finally, every cubic permutation polynomial has a rational critical point and therefore admits no coefficientwise permutation lift.