Having listened to a lot of podcasts by former college basketball players in the previous year, I have to agree with you, with a caveat.
On the whole, recruits and transfers are now making their decisions based almost solely on
money and professional outlook. Having said that, those players still care about their teammates and care about winning in the moment.
To put it bluntly, there is almost nothing about a specific college experience that’s going to compete with making hundreds of thousands of dollars more somewhere else. This is a free agent market.