Getting feisty, aren't you now? I like it.
Again, you are bringing up more hypotheticals that we will never know the answer to. What I am proposing is a very fair measure that can used as a quantifiable benchmark come the end of season. Let me slow it down some more. I understand it can be difficult for some.
We have 40 points right now through half of the season. That is an 80 point pace. If Setien can get us back to playing at a 90 point pace, which would see us finish with at least 85 points this season then I am fine giving him another season regardless of whether or not we win the league title. There is no way we could ever collapse in the CL with him, so let's exclude that possibility altogether.
What Setien could have done the previous two seasons is pure speculative rubbish. Since that all-evil, terrible, good for nothing boogeyman "Retardo" averaged 90 points his first two seasons in the league even though he knows absolutely nothing about football, that pace is the least I can expect from Qique.
Sounds fair, aye?