You weren't attacked. You were called out (probably more patiently than your argument has deserved).
And speaking of "logical", your first and last paragraphs are little more than appeals to authority, as opposed to dealing with the logic-defeaters that you've ignored. You are ignoring arguments in favor of veiled comments by people who may or may not know what is going on, but we KNOW that their jobs and paychecks depend on clicks/listens--i.e. the entire industry you're basing your anxieties on is an industry that makes its money on hyping and manipulating emotions to get those clicks/listens.
So, let me clarify where we're at...
You asked the "innocent" question: If we can't retain our guys, how can we expect to get other teams' guys?"
Several of us answered with very good and valid arguments as to why we should expect to. You ignored them. No one has guaranteed that we will. But we've given good reasons not to get wrapped too tightly around that axle until given more reason to assume your logic.
As example... My son watched the movie "Twister" when he was 5 or so years old. He was horribly afraid of rain and storms for a couple of years. Every time the sky darkened, or the weatherman predicted a storm, he ran in crying that the house may blow away.
Well, I guess it may, but I've lived through enough storms not to ask every time, "Why shouldn't I assume it'll blow the house away?"
That's where we're at here. You've asked why we shouldn't assume the house isn't going to be blown away. We've told you why. Now, you're reduced to ignoring common sense and recent history in favor of "weathermen".
You are just talking in circles.
For clarification: I did pose the question if we can’t talk our own guy into staying (Matthews), how are we gonna talk the top guys in the portal into coming, and I offered up comments made by Swain, Foster, as well as other circumstances that seem to indicate red flags in the WR and that support the validity of that question.
The “several of us” are you and one other guy that jumped in on that question as illogical handwringing and got maybe a couple of likes.
And the only “very good and valid arguments” you have made against the validity of my question is that it is illogical handwringing because what worked in the DB room last year will work this year. Other than that, please offer up what other points you’ve made that invalidate my original question.