Its a trade off. Take advantage of Lindors prime, hopefully win a WS or two and stomach the 2nd half of the deal.
You're going to want to take advantage of the rest of Lindors prime, which probably the next 5 years. If you acquire Lindor, you need to add more to really make this team a WS contender. Lindor + Springer/Realmuto + a top half of the rotation arm probably puts them there.
Who knows if they have the payroll to do that. That Lindor contract will be massive, so I could understand if they passed tbh.