While Digne wasn't perfect and had been below par, he is defensively better than Mykolenko, with far more experience; offensively, he offers a lot more too.
I'm not going to say we're comfortably safe due to him alone, but I do suspect we'd likely be in a more comfortable position,
I appreciate your point, however you can have professional pride and not be a fan or too emotionally connected - they're not mutually exclusive.
Back to the Saturday league analogy - it was a team I played for to stay fit and a bit of fun. Yet, the humiliation of going down was very uncomfortable.
Away from sport, if I do a bad job in my line of work, I feel it; it's pride of achieving; it's the mentality of doing the best we can.
It may merely be their job, but they've done a rubbish job at it.