We don't share some opinion which is fine.I would say being 55th now is like being 75th (average AAC level) in recruiting. The "does it matter?" is going to be more aligned with being 20th-40th in recruiting because all of those schools will not be competing for national championships and very unlikely to be competing for conference championships. A couple schools in that area will be good because they got the absolute max ceiling from a handful of recruits ('22 TCU, '15 MSU) but the remaining will be hoping to squeeze out 8 wins and hoping the bowl system will still support everything as currently devised.
We aren't close to National Championship material. Working on being a continual Bowl game contender and. 500 and above. I would love to see a NC before my time is up.(In my 40s)