I am ready if it is in the best interest of this team's future. If you want to go 6-12 and destroy Maye for the future and the Pats needing to find a new QB in three years because Maye becomes another Tony Eason or Mac Jones, more power to you.
My primary objective is to get this team back to being a contender not to make this team average in 2024. If Maye is ready and there is little to no negative impact to starting him right away, then start him. If it is in the best interest of this team for the future to sit him the entire year, sit the guy. It is that simple.
If he is groomed correctly, Maye has the potential to be the Pats' franchise QB (or possibly even an elite QB in this league) for the next 20 years. If he is mismanaged, he could end up being a failed experiment where the Pats have to go back to the drawing board to find a new QB in three years. Too many bad teams rush young QBs to start when they aren't ready and break them. The Pats broke Mac Jones (whether you think he was going to be any good or not).
Maye may be ready to start, but I ain't going to say he is based on a limited sample size against defenses playing back ups with vanilla defenses. He showed promise in that playing time, but it isn't real NFL football behind a crap o-line and an inexperienced receiving corp against real defenses with actual gameplans.