Why? Do you honestly expect different results?
My problem with this line of thinking is that things DID change from 2021. On offense they (mostly) changed for the better. On defense, they changed for the worse. But they didn't stay the same.
We aren't running a typical 'Pete ball' offense (though I sometimes think he tries to get us to at inopportune times) and we don't run Pete's traditional defense, either.
My thought experiment is this: If we had dumped Pete the same year we dumped Russ, and a new guy showed up, running this different offense and this different defense and had us on the verge of the playoffs both these past two seasons (making it in one of them), I'd be THRILLED with that result. Because that's not what usually happens.
As it is, it's pretty crazy to move on from our franchise QB to a perennial backup that nobody thought was going to start again and be in this position. That's not how that goes either. (See: New England)
Green Bay sure as crap isn't pissed with how their season is going the first year post-Rodgers.
I don't know. Do I want Pete back? Not sure. But it's still very weird how people went from being sure we were about to be one of the worst teams in the NFL when we replaced Russ with Geno Smith to being pissed about making the playoffs/nearly making the playoffs two years in a row. (While being the in the same division as probably the second-best team in the league.)