Threads like this are why I disappeared from this forum for a while.
It's not just about this season, in spite of how much we'd all like it to be. It's about long term planning of the club. Last time we came down from the Prem we made poor footballing decisions and it was catastrophic. I'm not even sure we've fully recovered given we struggled to compete financially even in the Championship. It's only by a Wilder miracle we're here at all.
If, and it's not an if I really want to entertain, Wilder were sacked then the replacement HAS to be the kind of manager who wants to play the same kind of football that a Wilder team at its best does. Because if it's an Allardyce type then there's no guarantee of short term success anyway (given you don't have players that suit them) but what results is you completely overhaul the way the team operates from backroom staff to first team to accommodate them. That costs you money. Even if you get the short term success, it's dire to watch, people get tired of it, and you plateau at the level that kind of football can give. Then everyone wants to change back to playing some progressive football, with a bit of style, and you have to overhaul the entire squad, coaching, and scouting team again. That overhaul usually results in a bigger drop in performance, because your first team aren't capable of playing that way, and you end up down anyway.
Worst case (and a likely one) you end up going down anyway, but the club is set back even further by having a dinosaur in charge who spends a lot of money to make you worse. Best case scenario you survive a bit longer and then think "Fucking hell, this is dire, we need to get someone in who wants to play like Wilder did" and then go through the problem all over again.
Just stick with the plan and know you have a manager who's hauled the club forward beyond what anyone expected and has the ability to do it all over again while playing some attractive football. Stick with a manager who lives and breathes the club. But for the love of God, please never take me back to the days of watching Kevin Blackwell, 4-5-1, Darius Henderson, hit and hope, dinosaur tactics, hoofball ever again. I can take relegation, I don't know if I can handle that.