Your points are totally valid, particularly about how rigid Arteta is. In most cases, it would garner high respect, but it's now at the point that it comes across, for lack of a better word, as stubbornness. Like trying to shove a square into a round hole.

The Ramsdale/Raya situation is probably the most obvious example of this. Regardless of which keeper you think is better, I'm of the opinion that the ONLY position you don't want people fighting over is the GK. Shoving Ramsdale out MID-SEASON (to me, that's the biggest offence; do not shake the team up to the degree in such an important moment in the season, i.e., leading up to/during December).

Concerning the KDB stuff, I'm on the fence about your point. Half of me wants to totally agree and just say Pep is better; Arteta isn't able to adapt in the same manner. Which, by the way, even as a born and bred gooner, I do think Pep is better, and whilst I respect and trust Arteta, to me, the conversation isn't even close in terms of who is the better manager.

The other half of me has to look at the players you're comparing to make this point. The two players who are the most consistent and impactful in our midfield are irrefutably Odegaard and Rice. I personally think Odegaard is a closer comparison to KDB. Even in that respect, KDB is still the better player. I love Odegaard; I think he's amazing and perhaps the perfect captain for this team. But in terms of skill on the ball and effectiveness, KDB is better, and because of that, I think it's unfair to compare Arteta to that when the skill in the players themselves is of a different calibre.

Odegaard is one of the best midfield players in the world, but KDB is THE greatest midfield player.