I just want to observe, player compensation and player freedom of movement don't HAVE to be connected to one another. As indeed they are not in pro sports, if you sign a 4-year deal, you're stuck with that team for four years unless the team decides otherwise.
In the run-up to the NIL explosion, the NCAA kept giving in on player movement issues IN LIEU OF player compensation issues. They opened one set of floodgates in order to avoid opening another, until the dam burst entirely.
But I think, and I think this gets at
@Bbuck21's point, a world in which everybody is recruiting everybody's roster every offseason and full college careers at one school are relatively rare is a much more destructive thing for the fabric and the culture of college sports than the players being paid.
College sports is different because your school belongs to you for life, it's a singular experience at a precious and memorable age, and as sports fans we get to see these young guys go through that in a way analogous to how we did. You strip that out and it's just minor league sports.
The minor league-ization is why I am pessimistic about the future.