I find Kieran Maguire is reliably sympathetic to the Hemmings/Ridsdale POV whenever we come up on POF, and (having now listened to the item) I find his opening remark - "welcome to our world" - pretty flippant and inappropriate. Brighton's world (he's a Brighton fan, his co-host Kevin Day is a Palace fan) is the Prem, which is a world we won't be welcomed to for the foreseeable future - which is rather the point.
His basic prognosis - we had (pre-Covid) a bottom 6 wage bill and a bottom 2 turnover, so bottom 6 is realistically the best we can ever expect to achieve - is likewise rather dismissive. Other clubs with low-end, non-parachute-fuelled budgets have managed to competently build a squad, reach the play-offs and then the Prem, including Brentford and - with a willingness to push the FFP limits to breaking point - Brighton itself.
But I'd expect Ridsdale to adopt the same sort of tone as Maguire at the meeting tbh - "we're 8th [11th/15th/safe for another season], what are you moaning about?"