I think it's consistent in the sense that, well, they could have started to build towards, I don't know, 30 to 40 wins by now, but... what's the point of that? The whole point of the process is to avoid being stuck in that exact position. If they get impatient now then all they've done is waste these years to build a "hey we win some games and maybe make the playoffs" crappy East team and anyone can do that. That's the mid tier hell they're trying to avoid. Better to stay patient and keep bottoming out and wait until you finally get some real lottery luck with a top two pick in a stacked year. Getting cold feet when you're in the middle of fording the river seems like the worst idea to me. Gotta have the stones to keep going. But then the sunk cost fallacy could be tricking them and me, so who knows.