Well, it's also a matter of self-preservation. If you know where the real problem lies - and we do - then it's far better for one's mental health to accept the problem cannot be fixed for as long as the cause remains untreated, rather than picking around the edges of a symptom. After the last two seasons, only a proper masochist would put themselves through another emotional ordeal this season if the cause was not addressed. After the utter contempt shown by Moshiri and Kenwright this summer, we know nothing has changed. We needed change. We got more of the same. We're circling the drain.
So, it's not a matter of merely criticising the board. It's a matter of accepting that until there is fundamental change at the very top, nothing fundamental can change elsewhere. I'm completely resigned now to another relegation battle. The problem last year and the year before is still the problem. Nothing has changed. We are depending on the three relegated clubs being worse than we are. Good times.
Defeatist for no reason - in a game of fine margins the one who's in charge of the pitch-side of things doesn't see any of them and doesn't think there's problems, we drop points.
Say he took Maupay off earlier for either Danjuma (weird sub imho but ok) or any of the youngsters and the game ends 0:0 or we actually go on and win - 1 point and a decent start, or 3 points and a great start. Promising.
Instead, persist with Maupay for ages (because apparently we can't start young players as that's what random GOTers tell me), play with no striker effectively for 70 min (with the added bonus that we're definitely just hoofing it forward to no one if it wasn't Maupay, as we only play on the ground with him and Gray and everyone else just gets the hoof treatment because they're tall, which is another Dycheism), lose the game to a soft chance because they actually subbed on a forward who hit the target; 0 points, crap start.
Stack those up and we're back hovering around relegation come April/May again.
I'm not asking for him to be some kind of god manager, just... to use his brain a bit, you know?
As a side note - many sides have even won things with crap owners doing whatever they want or siphoning the club, or have done better (or average) because the team's manager(s) were decent. We're not the first and won't be the last and to hide and deny Dyche's ineptitude behind the ineptitude of the owners is silly.