If anything - and I realize there's a raft of explanatory reasons to explain what happened to Napoli this season, so I'm not trying to be overly reductionist on the basis of one potentially far-fetched thing - that would be my actual possible concern, the idea of late-season indifference bleeding at all into next season. Napoli were runaway league winners last year, they had a bigger lead at the top than we do even, and one season turns to the next and everything got worse for them. That's the cautionary tale here to try and avoid. Anything else that involves the topic of this season is nothing more than simply delaying the inevitable.
The journey is always more rewarding than the destination itself. You celebrate the triumphs that get you closer to the trophy. Once you've won the trophy...now what? Especially in a round robin league campaign, many times that trophy is won under the most anti-climactic of circumstances.
I wasn't following the club during the Mancini or Mourinho years. 2021 was my first Scudetto. How was that Scudetto won? While I was at church, when Inter wasn't playing, it was clinched because Atalanta drew against Sassuolo, and once I was out of church I was busy working the entire rest of the day. That Scudetto celebration for me might as well have never happened, by the time I had any chance to celebrate it at all, the organic nature of the celebration had worn off. It was already bad enough that we won it while watching at home...watching Bayer Leverkusen today, I'm so happy they had the chance to not only clinch it in front of their home fans, but that they got to clinch it by winning the game right in front of them. Their championship was clinched at the final whistle of their game, not some other game taking place at a different time. Regardless...that didn't take any of the joy or color out of what happened in the run-up to the 2021 Scudetto for me, those moments were what shaped the journey. This season is no different in that regard.
I just hope that, at a minimum, we don't lose next week's game. With a win, we win the Scudetto against Milan, which speaks for itself. With a draw, we won't clinch the Scudetto, but we still put ourselves in a win-and-clinch Scudetto scenario for the following week in a home game, which is the next best thing. Give me either, I have a preference for the former but either is fine. Just no clinching the Scudetto away (otherwise), and no clinching the Scudetto sitting on our asses. Boring.