I am new member here and I wonder this pessimistic atmosphere here, many people in the forum want ole out obsessively and many of them want Poch instead of him, it is my observation which could be wrong I do not see much posts about technical stuff and fair points it is more like a battlefield for Ole obsessed people, well, both Ole out or Ole in both can be obsessed in their own way! I think there are much much more going in the club rather than being obsessed with our manager. When you are obsessed you do not learn new things good or bad because you are blind with your obsessions. People did not learn about PSG or etc because obsessed people would never learn!
I like your post and the underpinning logic.
Unfortunately, society in general is becoming more binary and people want to pick a tribe.
A football manager is never truly 'in' these days and tenure can be threatened by a run of very poor results.
On the other hand, if a manager isn't given a reasonable period to build results on a repeated basis, a club will lurch from crisis to crisis.
Thirdly, past performance does not guarantee future results.
What we have, with Ole, is someone who knows the club very well (as a player, reserve manager and now 1st team manager) and who took over a circus when Jose left.
On the plus side, we have seen some deadwood cleared out (and some still to go) and some signings that have worked out generally much better than those of the previous three managers, though in fairness to Moyes half of his (Fellaini, Mata) have made some decent contributions and the other two (Varela, Janko) cost less than £3m combined, so were hardly major disasters.
The team spirit is much better than it was before he arrived.
In terms of football style, there seems to be a focus on more attacking play with dangerous counter attacking capability and the number of penalties awarded (in a VAR regime) shows how uncomfortable our forwards make life for defenders. Post lockdown last season, there was some evidence of overcoming mid/lower-table teams with massed ranks in defence - it remains to be seen if this will be true over a whole season.
More concerningly, the team has demonstrated inconsistency - up and down like a yoyo - the good times are great (third was earned last year with a superb run), but the bad periods are abject - the home losses to Palace and Spurs were appalling, with a team in disarray, whilst at other times the players seem to have run out of steam and confidence.
On balance, I believe Ole is taking things in the right direction, but to become a top manager he needs to demonstrate that he can develop a team that plays well consistently, for that is the secret to challenging seriously for the Premier League. Presently, I could see Utd winning a cup, but not delivering 38 results to compete for the PL.