100%. This is why it is concerning that the Spurs don't seem committed to trading Jak. It keeps us stuck in the mediocre zone. Hopefully it's just the FO trying to get leverage for a better deal, but it seems entirely feasible they still see Jak as their long-term starting C.
My biggest fear was that the Spurs didn't see trading DJM as a tear-it-down, but merely as a good deal they couldn't refuse. However, mitigating those fears is the fact that we've done literally nothing else this offseason to improve the team, despite the massive amounts of cap space. This seems to suggest we are going full tear-down mode, but the reports on keeping Jak are concerning. It makes zero sense to keep him just for this season - we've either got to trade him or the plan will be to extend him next off-season (which doesn't make a lot of sense - except for maybe in the context of getting the 2-5 pick, which will be a G or W, not a big, in which case you feel you are getting generational talent but still need a competent C on the team and we wouldn't want to start over there)