True...aside from Renault. But'that' season at McLaren where a LOT of folks pointed fingers at the rookie likely don't know it wasn't quite that simple. Ron Dennis really messed that up.
As for the future I agree it doesn't look good. I've seen nothing from Brown to suggest he's going to turn it around; the Gil hires feels like a role of the dice rather than a strategy to survive and prosper in the sport. Mind you as a sport I wonder how long Williams or FI can survive as it stands, how long Mercedes will hang around and why Renault think F1 is any sort of strategy for it's business.