For what it's worth, most of us suck at message-board shorthand. What sounds perfectly reasonable in our head comes across as a pissy manifesto to everyone reading it. It's been like that since the dawn of message boards. No reason for you to take a step back from it, unless this place causes you more stress than pleasure. Or unless you find what I haven't – a life.
As far as the rebuild, I agree with most of what you're saying. We've got some exciting prospects, but I'm not falling for the hype that all of 'em will be upgrades on our current roster. I've seen that story too many times – future players always look brighter than present players. Some, like Demidov, may actually be as good as their hype. Most won't.
And yes, some of our current guys are underperforming or, in Reinbacher's case, on pause. Youth isn't an all-purpose excuse, but it is a mitigating factor. It's too early to write off Dach. Slafkovsky is a 20 year-old who has a lot of runway before hitting his prime. Guhle is developing, just needs experience. To be clear, these players were chosen as cornerstone pieces. We don't know how good they'll become, but we should agree on their importance to our future team. Easy to say we can pivot to Plan-B if they don't work out; much harder to actually find a comparable Plan-B.
