To win a cup, you have to contend. To contend every year.....you have to have those foundation building blocks of effort/work ethic, Canadian draft and depth, etc.
In the main, we do have these......after a million years of not having them.
As far as overall W-L record.....what was Chris Jones's record his first year? When you take over a tyre fire....there will be serious short term pain. Have people forgotten the GM's and coaches that came before? The hopelessness and overall demoralization and ineptitude?
If we win say, one more playoff game, last couple of years - this regime is probably viewed somewhat differently.
Is there a better management/coaching group out there? Perhaps. Would we find it? Open question.