They traded Guentzel for a win-now player plus a conditional 1st (that probably ends up a 2nd) and 3 prospects. Again, that lines up with "retooling while remaining competitive".
I could absolutely see Dubas handing out some bad UFA contracts, but that's about as far as I can reasonably see him go in terms of "moves that won't age well". I don't think there's any chance that the 2025 1st, Pickering, Yager or the prospects from the Guentzel trade get moved, and pretty much everything beyond that doesn't move the needle.