Trippier is alright, nothing more or less. He's a good attacking fullback who regularly gets exposed against sides with top class wide players, and regularly makes silly mistakes which cost us goals. He's got a fantastic delivery on him and is a threat from set pieces, but he's not in the same league as Walker in terms of his athleticism. He got overrated on the back of a good world cup. At left back we're facing the same struggle as Davies clearly isn't good enough to start and Rose is fine, but has lost an edge since his injury .. yet we refuse to invest.
He has flaws, but as for being formulaic and predictable, what do you expect? The club refuses to freshen up the squad and bring in new faces to challenge for places, so of course we keep hitting the same ceiling and struggling to progress. We don't replace injured players like Dembele or Rose, we simply make do with their alternatives and in the formers case, seemingly have decided to just not replace him at all. You can't expect Pochettino to progress with a team when he's constantly being hit by setbacks, we may improve going forward but we can no longer dominate the midfield like we used to, and we no longer possess two bombarding fullbacks who were a very important string to our bow.
I don't think we're the 'Kane team', if anything this season we've had plenty of players chipping in with goals and assists, the problem being that they're all out at the moment. I do think our style of play has evolved and there's less of an emphasis on possession and more on counter attacking football (as a result of losing the influence of dembele, in my opinion) but Pochettino will always want his teams to play a certain way. I do think we're maximising what we can get from this squad of players and honestly can only think of a few managers in world football who could perhaps do a better job.