I actually upvoted this if only because it kinda rings true with something me and bakuryu have been saying for a while, namely that CLG has had to replace their roster for a while but keeps "holding out" because a solid 4th is better than a risky shot at first? Will go down the list of these points, as I heavily disagree with some of them.
For me, the DD situation is something I didn't really get at first and upon seeing what happened with him still don't really understand why they brought him in in the first place. While importing a jg might have been a bit too expensive, the idea that they chose him (a guy who prior to this was booted off of two teams and has never been a guy who people have actively thought can bring a team to worlds with him) and didn't just start omar for the entire split and allow him to get used to things bothers me a bit. DD is almost certainly going to get an LCS roster spot next split, if only for the wrong reasons (the small ability to carry games and not taking up an import spot being the only positives).
For me if I had to rank Huhi, I'd put him on my 2nd of 3 tiers I have for midlaners. He is by no means top-tier (bjerg/jensen occupying that) but is by no means shite tier (my "3rd tier" being guys who are on LCS rosters but could very easily be replaced by challenger tier ones). Replacing him is kinda 50-50, as unless they find the next caps/perkz (guys who they could legitimately make a push for if they wanted to in the off-season) he's kinda the best they have.
One of the points I did agree with concerned Darshan, as he's looked quite terrible for well over a year now in which they could've actively replaced him and tried out guys like Solo or Licorice. He was meh in 2016 summer, looked ridiculously awful in 2017 spring, and when DD wasn't giving them an aggressive "go button" looked pretty shite in 2017 summer (hence why CLG "fell off" once they decided to boot DD). While he does provide veteran experience to the team, that's kinda the only positive especially now with like 80% of the toplaners being far better mechanically and/or korean.
Stixxay I'll pass on, only because botlanes in general are rarely consistent and often share the throne of best and worst weekly (apollo being a great example of this, as there was a literal stretch of 3 weeks during summer where he was regarded as the best botlaner only to then be considered the worst then back to best again).
Overall, I'm just confused as to why they didn't do the rebuild sooner. Maybe it was because they didn't want to deter investments even though I'm pretty sure businesses would look to invest in an upswinging group rather than a down-swinging one? Either case, if they don't do at least a partial rebuild in this offseason (get rid of darshan and bring in a 10-man roster for their LCS team) then there'll be legitimate concern as we could potentially see them lumped into TL territory where they know how to use quality talent but don't actually know how to "groom" them a la C9's contractz/jensen/smoothie.