No, the fact is that we have been slowly losing our game of chess, were down multiple pieces, and it came time for a gambit.
When you are playing a game and losing, then change the rules of the game. We just did. Fact is nobody had a realistic way we could definitely make the sort of jump we had to take. So most people were just going to complain and kind of quit and oh well maybe it all comes together some magical how, or maybe we have to rebuild again oh shucks. But nobody who wasn't deluded was looking at our "assets" and all our holes and saying we could really do anything dramatic enough to definitely turn things. So we were all aiming for, well, maybe if WCS pans out and maybe...we can get around .500 and maybe...
And Vlade said f that and changed our whole circumstances and opened up real possibilities for us. There is a time to be bold, always. Everytime you win at anything, there is always one key moment or move you make where you step out, do something out of the ordinary and change the game in your favor. And if you are just solid from that point on, you've in good shape and can run with it all the way home. We had no way to achieve what we needed to do. Now we MIGHT have a way to achieve it. Take that everytime.