I'd rather play Elanga, Garnacho, Pellistri, Amad, etc and fail to make top 4 than somehow fluke it playing Ronaldo into the ground.
Chances are we would play Ronaldo, play like shit, fix nothing and end up empty handed anyway, just like in this player of the season season you refer to.
We have to stop trying to short-term fix a long-term problem.
Zero beef with him and all these shenanigans. That's Ronaldo for you, always was, even back when he was absolutely phenomenal for us and definitely worth it.