I think Brighton have the core of a solid, safe premiership team. Ryan, Dunk, Duffy, Gross, Bernardo, Propper, Bissouma, Murray are all good players and they have a quite a few decent attacking wingers who could be much better utilised - Knockeart, Izquierdo, possibly Jahanbakhsh (worth another season, even though he's been poor this year). Murray is probably too old to be relied on now as the main goal source so they will need to get a decent striker in. Perhaps someone like Bas Dost (not sure how realistic that is) but a reliable goal scorer. Doesn't have to be the most exciting player.
Brighton's main issue is their focus on super negative football for the last half of the season. They bought a bunch of attacking players but then proceed to play super anti-football which is counter-productive and doesn't make the most sense. Hughton did amazingly well to get them up but think realistically this probably is his level.
Fair play to the chairman for allowing him until the end of the season when it seems he made his mind up earlier.
I also don't understand the negative comments from fans of other teams who think clubs should be punished for sacking an underperforming manager, it's odd to me. People have been shitting on Brighton for playing terrible football and now they sack the manager to try and rectify this yet this is also unacceptable apparently.