You're all correct. That's why we'll never achieve anything of any serious significance with Bruno Fernandes in our team. One user on this forum about a year ago described Bruno as a "pseudo midfielder"(don't wanna tag that user, done that already couple of times - he was the one that made a famous thread criticizing Bruno which got locked). You're not a true midfielder if you can't operate in tight spaces, dribble and carry the ball. You can maybe get away with it if you're a workhorse DM destroyer, but that's about it. I would easily take any of KDB, Odegaard, Maddison, Wirtz, Musiala etc. over Bruno, no question. We actually had the opportunity to replace him with homegrown, great and relatively cheap player in Maddison(who is a United childhood fan, by the way), but we didn't do it, of course. Maddison is signing of the season, a bargain which massively improved Tottenham, as you can see on the PL table.
ETH putting his eggs in the Bruno basket, making him captain and not actually trying to get rid of him is a significant red flag and one of the reasons for eventual ETH's downfall, among poor recruitment(which actually isn't mostly his fault, he should have a competent football structure above him which does the scouting/recruitment). I would actually play a midfield of Casemiro/Amrabat, Hannibal/Mainoo, Mount, or Casemiro and Amrabat together in tougher away games(like Etihad, Anfield etc.). It can't be much worse that this.
Bruno must be phased out of this team, but that will be done by the next manager(and ownership?) after Ten Hag gets sacked(unfortunately, I had faith in him) and Glazers hopefully, finally leave(at least surrender most of the control to Ratcliffe, if they don't sell to Qataris).