Whilst your point makes sense I don't think there is a 'too far' either way. Good football and results aren't mutually exclusive, nor are they even in fact related. There are good and bad teams who play football and good and bad teams who play hoofball. With that in mind, I don't understand why managers persist with the long ball tactic other than it just being a limitation of theirs that they can't make good football work. For example Spain the 2008-2012 were probably the best national team ever and they played such good football with so many playmakers they ended up playing with no strikers by the later years.
