We are in for a rough period, that's the reality of it.
Ancelotti has to work within very narrow confines, the majority of the squad have to be culled and they know it, whilst they'll continue to put their paychecks first. We still have to play most of them in the short and medium term whether we like it or not also.
On its own, that more or less guarantees that there will be a period of disharmony, or more accurately, continued disharmony. A state we have been in since 2014.
I would find it to be of extreme negligence on the clubs part if the scale of the problems were not made clear to Ancelotti before he agreed to accept the job.
If Ancelotti got the warts and all version and still said yes, then we have to trust that a man of his calibre and experience is confident that he has the tools to at least begin the process of putting sustainable fixes in place over time.
Nothing we have seen on Sunday was in any way new.