It doesn't improve swiftly. It is farther away than it is close.
This thinking "they're only a few players away" is nothing more than selling yourself they're better than they really are.
The fact is they do not have the talent to be a true contender and there are few shortcuts and even fewer for one bragging about not being an early player in FA.
"We like our guys" is like the blind man thinking he's married to a beautiful woman. I picked her, she must be beautiful.
It's not about "swiftly", with this brain trust is is all about whether that can happen in any time frame.
Is anyone here really expecting these people to get smarter or any better at their jobs? If you are, I'd like to know what makes you feel that way.
If you are one of those that expect people to get better because they keep trying to do the job, I can show you a lot of exceptions to that and I know them personally.
Here's the problem with thinking experience makes people better. If experience is a teacher and the consistent gaining of knowledge, it can help. If it is just the simple passage of time, it cannot. From your observation of these people, are they really experienced or have they just been on the job for a long time?
One person learns from their mistakes so as to not make the same ones to better achieve the results. The other man keeps making the mistakes hoping the results turn out better.
The real problem for us. Doesn't matter because there are no repercussions from mistakes. In fact, it is such a business model oddity, it keeps increasing in value regardless of the mistakes.