How much did Jakobsen want?
Sprinters pretty much have the highest floor and lowest ceiling of what they can achieve. With a good schedule they should always score heaps of points, but on the big stage all they can win that matters in the big picture is basically GT stages, and many of them will then only race the TdF. They don't compete in Sanremo anymore, and have a large dependence on leadout and their performance varies a lot season to season to begin with.
Sprinters pretty much have the highest floor and lowest ceiling of what they can achieve. With a good schedule they should always score heaps of points, but on the big stage all they can win that matters in the big picture is basically GT stages, and many of them will then only race the TdF. They don't compete in Sanremo anymore, and have a large dependence on leadout and their performance varies a lot season to season to begin with.