For me it's because I spent multiple offseasons arguing with people who wanted to blow this team up and start another rebuild, and those people were continually citing the Wings/Yzerman as the 'ideal' of a team doing things right because they were winning the Prospect Pool Cup and the Most Draft Picks trophy every year.
I don't particularly care about the Wings/Yzerman specifically (and I think he's actually just a pretty average GM), it's just that this situation is playing out pretty much exactly how I was telling people it would at the time, and showing how difficult it is to get from 'OMG LOOK AT ALL OUR PROSPECTS' to being an actual good team with actual NHL impact players driving the bus.
Fans act like tanking is this guaranteed formula for success and retooling on the fly is stupid and guaranteed to fail but Detroit is Exhibit 1A for how you can do everything 'right' in a tank and nothing is guaranteed. And like I tried telling the video games people for years, there are reasons that teams only tank like this as a last resort.