I’m definitely not a member of the “bring back Adrian Griffin” club. But Khris Middleton is not the difference between this club being 30-13 and being a play-in tournament team.
The best thing I can say about the Bucks of this era is that they did win a championship. So it was not all for nothing.
But at this point, yeah. There’s really no path forward except to trade Giannis, take some major lumps in the next 5 years, invest entirely in a youth movement and hopefully by 2031 when you have 1sts again you’ve found a building block or two to start with.