The Juan Soto situation is a lot of things, but it is not entirely unprecedented. Players with Soto's age and resume become available for a trade maybe once in a generation, and the price it takes to pry the outfielder from the Washington Nationals is likely to reflect that. The Nationals reportedly want four or five "youngsters" (read: prospects or MLB players with low service time), and that's going to give a lot of teams pause.
Should it? Well, that's not easy. Accurately judging a winner from any Soto trade the moment it's made is borderline impossible, because we really don't know what the players headed to D.