No, it's really not irrelevant. This club needs to start producing junior talent in waves. It is never, ever going to become competitive by signing first grade players in free agency: that just burns up cap space and creates unbalanced rosters with a few stars and a bunch of dross. We need to be the Panthers or Raiders, not the Titans.
If there are good walk up starters available for reasonable money of course we should sign them. In fact, we have been doing so: Luia, Turuva, May, May, Pearce-Paul. But we also need young talent, roster depth, cheap finds in the rough - all of it. We need to go from having maybe 15 players who can at least hold their own in first grade to 30-plus - and we can't pay 500k plus for all of them.