I understand that you judge Rino primarily on the results. I can see why under that point of view you're in favor of keeping him or at least not seeing this season as a failure if we don't manage to achieve CL.
But for us who don't want to continue with Rino it's because we don't look only on the results but also on how we obtained those and how we gave away too many of them. We look how this team plays and if it's making the right steps in the right direction.
Many of those wins were obtained in unnecessary extremis due to insufficent match preparation, lack of tactical awareness and errors when picking the starting line-up or executing the right substitutions at the right time. Many of those wins looked exactely like our losses or draws of recent weeks with the only difference that in those wins players like Donnarumma or Romagnoli saved our asses or kept us in the games by pulling out some incredible saves or tackles. On paper we look like defensively we're more stable as numbers don't lie. In real life tho we look as shaky as in recent years but with even less offensive output.
That being said literally no one is asking to beat Juve or Napoli on a regular base. We're not delusional. But all those h2h-statistic doen't help us in the slightiest way if we end up being 5th with 1 point behind those teams. Because if you look at our games, especially those against the lower half of the table and without taking the endresult into consideration (well, actually even with the endresult taken into consideration), there is only little you can save or applaude Gattuso for. Those were the games who probably cost us CL. And with a proper coach, those were very winable.
That's why we say we can't continue with Gattuso if we want to see a different and more successfull style of football.
I'm not quite sure which of my points you were addressing with all this, but some assumptions are wrong.
Firstly, I think Gattuso should leave. He has a contract, so he has every right to wait to be fired, and he should do that. This is because I don't think it's a good idea for a manager to work at a high expectations club like Milan when the back office execs evidently don't see him as their ideal pick.
So I do want the manager to change.
Besides this, I don't agree with most things you've said. Milan have played good football occasionally this season but we've always had to pull back and be pragmatic due to various reasons - injury, defensive lapses, player problems. Most managers would've done the same. With the hand that he has been dealt, Gattuso has done as good a job as most managers in the league would do. Of course he's no Pep or Conte or Klopp - but Milan can't really afford those managers and their projects these days.
Someone brought up the fact that we are apparently poor against the top 8, which is why I said we seem to have the head to head against everyone in the top 6 except against Juve, Napoli and Inter. Which is really the level of our squad. Lazio and Roma both have arguably better squads than us and had more continuity, yet we are probably going to finish ahead of them this season. That is a successful season for me and 4th place will undoubtedly make it a successful season for everyone in the club hierarchy.
Regardless, to come back to where I started, Gattuso should go because there are other issues at play. We need to get a manager whom Gazidis and Leonardo have faith in.