It's caused them to make necessary changes to both their executive hierarchy and their coaching staff in each of the past two offseasons, and in doing so, could either set them back on par with the NFL's juggernauts or cause them to descend even further into the entrenched stranglehold of mediocrity.
Hopefully, for their sake, it's the former.
The Packers don't need to do more than a lot of teams typically do entering any offseason, and that's essentially upgrading at various positions on their roster via free agency or the draft. They already got the difficult part out of the way, and that was undermining the previous coaching regime to venture forth in a new direction: A direction spear-headed by new head coach Matt LaFleur.