There's a slight bit of discontinuity but I hear what you're saying. What's happening is that:
1. People are extremely glad to not have lost a player like Ricketts, Jo Smith (who I guess we can just call Smith now), Sutton and Attakora.
2. Thus, indirectly, it means that we're glad that Seattle picked Ja Smith so it can often seem like we're making him out to be worse than he was.
P.S. Depending on whether Mo was going to get rid of Ja Smith, we can decide whether it was the best outcome. Because if Ja Smith was going to be let go, then yes. However, if Mo planned to keep him, the best outcome would have been to have lost no player (or perhaps Ruiz instead).