I'm not surprised. DD is a guy you bring in for a very specific reason. You bring in Dombrowski to do exactly what he did with both us successfully, and Detroit less successfully. Because a collapse is imminent regardless and it's time to think short term.
You bring in DD to pool your resources for a few critical peak years, or to mortgage the future, rob Peter to pay Paul, and give you a few extra years to contend before the collapse. In our case, it was the latter. And it worked. We won a World Series we probably don't win without him.
However, it's now obvious that the collapse can't be delayed anymore and that was always going to be the moment when Dombrowski was done in Boston. DD has done his job, got you that one extra title, but he's no longer the right man to do what needs to be done for the future -- break up the team, accept a couple bad years, and trade current assets, of which we have a lot, for future assets to rebuild the roster around. Especially our rotation.
It's time to completely reorganize the franchise. Keep what you can, trade what you have to, and get the pipeline kick-started by any means necessary. And accept that that means it'll be maybe 3-4 years before we're a top competitor again.
BTW this means we'll probably have young GMs for a little while. No competent veteran GM will take this job because they're going to have to make some very unpopular decisions to put the team back on the right track. I'm talking "trade Betts and Bogaerts and possibly E-Rod to restock the farm" kind of decisions. Restoring the farm to functionality is priority 1 if we ever want to get back to the top