Still quite the opposite. In MLB, be untalented, or undertalented is about the worst possible position. I would rather suffer and accumulate talent, versus suffer and not have anything to show for it.
I think the idea that this "tank" is intentional is laughable. This is a horrible organization for talent, probably the worst in baseball from top to bottom. All of this process is doing is buying time until we can get some talent to Chicago. Right now, this team could have been the biggest spenders in all of baseball in free agency and still not sniffed .500.