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I don't think what you're saying is unreasonable.
And I think it underlines even more what an achievement it was when you consider some of the other riders from the Sky ranks who left to pursue GTs but didn't quite make it - Porte, and probably Landa and Poels as well.
If Geoghegan Hart stays at Ineos, although he has probably earned the right to be team leader at a GT again, he will be lucky to find himself in the context where his rivals are as weakened (although that "luck" may already have started with Bernal's sciatica).
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I don’t think there’s any doubt that TGH is staying at Ineos. From what I’ve heard his agent has already agreed a contract extension, and Ineos will announce it in due course. (They do have a tendency to announce extensions after the racing has finished, but ahead of their next season get together usually held at the end of October).
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I'm not. When will Tao again be the sole protected rider in a team as strong as Ineos were at the Giro with such relatively weak opponents? He might win a grand tour again but I doubt the chance to do so will ever be as good as it was this year. And there's nothing wrong with that, Evans and Wiggins and Sastre and others only won one grand tour but they all deserved it, they took the chance when everything fell in to place.