Trading and recruiting are two separate issues.
I suppose it depends who is taking control (if it's purely the person in charge of recruiting who conducts the trade/recruiting, which I would find unlikely, or if it is the entire FD). I do see your point though - however I feel that the idea of trading a player for a high draft pick (in order to get some more youth into the team, with a better chance of obtaining a quality one) is one issue, the recruitment of a quality player is another one.
TBH, the progress of Dunn, Bell and to a lesser extent, Bate are more an indictment on our development processes than anything else.