There are a few things I don’t enjoy reading, let alone writing. One is the HOT TAKE, that ubiquitous frothy-mouthed screed about one subject or another that’s designed to get cheap clicks and make the author look stupid in the near future. The other is the What If?, the kind of article that supposes that if one isolated event had taken place (while all other events remained constant, I guess), the entire history of a team would have been immediately altered as if by Uatu the Watcher or some other omnipotent celestial being. What If?