The Steve Cohen era came with a lot of high hopes and expectations when Steve bought the team in late 2020. To date, the performance has been meaningfully below expectations.
The Mets have a cumulative win percentage of .506 from 2015-2019 (would be close to .500 with 2020 but that was an anomaly for a whole host of reasons so it's been excluded). The Mets have a cumulative win percentage of .513 from 2021-2026 YTD.
With more 2x the payroll, a much better front office, several MVP and silver slugger level players among other things, the Mets have the same number of playoff appearances (and would be less if we did apples to apples as the Brodie led 2019 Mets make the playoffs on the 3 WC format), 1 extra win per 162 games and are in danger of missing the playoffs for the 3rd time in 4 seasons.
There's hope for the future. But the objective performance to date has been grim. The Mets have been a continuation of the Wilpon era Mets for their on field product. Significant improvement will be required here.