It is not. Based on your posting it seems you lack the understanding how to build a successful franchise. This stupid argument we have to suck to get better I have heard in the 90s and early 2000's on this very same site. Making the playoffs was not good enough. We have to suck and have high draft picks. Now almost 20 years later and two really sucky seasons we are no closer to a deep playoff run then we were 20 years ago. The opposite.
The only time one single high draft player would make an impact would be if you have all the other pieces in place. But then you are probably already mediocre or a playoff bound team and you trade up to get that player (i.e. KC).
Most teams who make it to the Superbowl have lived a mediocre life or went to the playoffs and were either out immediately or were one and done or barely missed the playoffs. But they finished the building of the team over a couple years by picking the right players.
To build a winner you need a front office who establishes a philosophy/system for the team and then picks the right players. You have to have the right scouting team and FO to make the right decisions. Winners are build through the draft and FA.
You can turn a mediocre team into a winner in one season if you have the right people in place who make the right decisions. Our problems are not the players. It is not their fault that we picked them up either in the draft or via FA. It is not their fault that we put them into a scheme unfitting their talent. Our problem is the front office who is utterly incompetent in identifying the right talent to whatever scheme we want to establish (which of course includes the right coaches who can execute such scheme) or to get the right coach who gets the most out of the players.
To say we have to suck and get high draft picks to get better is a cowardish way of saying I have no idea what our problem is therefore let's get high draft picks.
How many years would you like to suck? How many high draft picks do we need? Heard of the Cleveland Browns? They are collecting high draft picks like other people collect stamps. They are nowhere close to even be mediocre.
Ever heard of the Cinncinnati Bengals and their 10 or 12 year run of misery and high draft picks throughout the 90s and early 2000s? It did not help them one bit. As a matter of fact they became an almost yearly playoff participant when they were mediocre for a few years.
How about the Detroit Lions and their almost 10 years of misery including an 0-16 season? All these high draft picks and yet....no real playoff contender much less Superbowl contender.
So tell me. How many years would you like to call wins meaningless and how many years should we have high draft picks?
5, 10, 20 years?
If you are that bad that you have a top 5 pick you have more problems than just one or two player. It will take you 3 or 4 years to get back to mediocrity. And then you have to take the next step which might take you another couple years. But by then your top 5 picks may not be with you anymore. Oops. Let's start over again.
The problem starts with the FO: player personal, GM, coaches.
And that is our biggest problem right now.
If you take our day 1 offense and exchange them with the KC offense they may not be as high scoring as the KC offense but Reid and Co would make our offense easily an offense scoring in the mid to high 20s. On the other hand Gase and Co would make the Mahomes and Co offense an offense which barely cracks the 20s.
THAT is your first problem: coaching. The coaching staff is of much higher priority then a top draft pick.
Pretty much the same can be said on defense.
Our solution is not draft position. Our solution is the right people above the players: coaches, GM, VP of Personal (or whatever Tannenbaum calls himself).
