Yeah especially the Yankees have been doing this for decades now. The number has just inflated with the contacts.
It's not like we really did it first this offseason either. The Phillies were the first ones that doled out a $300 million contact this offseason to Trea Turner. The Mets mostly just re-signed their own players and replaced ones that left with players basically on the same level. Verlander replaced us losing the best pitcher in baseball over the past 5 years, so objectively, we downgraded there due to his age/years remaining (though I'm sure the original plan was to add Verlander to Degrom and Scherzer). Senga is a question mark that replaced ones of the better pitchers last year in Bassitt, and Quintana is maybe slightly better than Walker but who knows really, and regardless he's not a superstar. Minor upgrade in the bullpen and starting catcher, but none were huge stars either. Correa is really the only actual major addition. People are just looking at the inflated numbers, but really that's been happening in every sport - Ronaldo got $200 million per year. NFL QBs are hitting $50 million AAV while star WR, CB, LT, Edge rushers are at $25-35 million.
They should be complaining more about the inflation going on around us making the middle class having tighter and tighter margins due to lack of salary inflation and outsourcing than worrying about how Steve Cohen spends his money.