There's going to be such a smooth transition from Stafford to Simpson. I understand why people are upset, but this is how the great franchises do it.
Montana to Young, Favre to Rodgers, and to a lesser degree Smith to Mahomes, Flacco to Lamar, and Rodgers to Love.
Waiting until you need a QB before you draft one is how you wind up like the Saints after Brees or the Patsies between Brady and Maye. There is absolutely no way McVay will be satisfied with tanking for a top QB and waiting for another Stafford like opportunity is fool's gold. Those opportunities are few and far between.
As far as addressing Simpson as a prospect and not the situation, I think a lot of people have missed or underestimated in their evaluations. Smart, smart kid, pre-snap, post-snap, really more advanced than anybody we've seen coming out in the past few years. Reads defenses, understands pass protections, reads DBs body language, and throws with an insane amount of anticipation. For anybody who hasn't, I would watch his Gruden camp on Youtube where he articulates himself really well. I get the undersized and the average arm complaints, but there is so much more to playing QB than being 6'5 or having a rocket arm. Hell, Stafford has a rocket arm and 98% of what makes him successful has absolutely nothing to do with how strong his arm is.
Ultimately, this is the smart way to maintain a winning franchise. It does nothing for us short term and fans will hate it, but I think we'll eventually see this was one of the smartest moves so far of the McSnead era.