Wow. I'm not a fan of PDA based upon some of his plans / moves ... but taking the only person with real GM work experience out of a front office with Vlade (no relevant on-job experience), Bratz (lifer second or third banana, who is more of a scout), Oliver (data guy), and Vivek ... who has no issues about pushing / intervening on things he knows very little about is more than a little spooky.
Sure, they will make a move if PDA leaves but when the front office was rolled out 6 weeks ago a lot of folks here were saying "Well, I'm not sure this mix makes perfect sense, but I'm guessing there is another move coming to complete this puzzle (a KF staple) / I bet we've already found a young but experienced basketball operations person on another team and we are just waiting for their season to end to make the hire official. But, nope. This is our front office right now.
To me, Vivek has set up a front office that: (1) has a bunch of second and third tier staff, who won't mind listening to all of his stupid questions (Instead, of asking for some space to let them do their job and then they can bring him things to approve or decline); (2) will protect him from the heat he's already facing and his upcoming stupid moves because folks love Vlade and will both back him and give him the benefit of the doubt for 2 years. That makes a ton of sense for him, but otherwise has a lot of red flags and possible issues. I get folks want the team to do well and love Vlade, but this front office might not be staffed well.
If PDA leaves, we are such a mess and a joke that I think it's going to be hard for us to find somebody to come in and do the laboring oar of our basketball operations work, while being dependent upon both Vivek and Vlade to see and make the correct move and follow his advice. You are also signing up for a job where you'll probably be forced to trade Cousins in 2 years and both the owner and fans are going to be upset the team didn't "do more to keep him."