I was talking about between cutdowns and the start of the draft, not during the draft.
But even that I’m no longer all that in favor of. Last year and up until this discussion I had thought that Hamlet had kind of gotten screwed solely because of bookkeeping. But it turns out he did not get screwed at all, so the need for the rule change in the first place has kind of evaporated.
To elaborate: The trade was made after cutdowns, meaning draft picks had already been created. So the longstanding rule we’ve always used makes sense.
The idea was that if he had made the trade before cutdowns, he would have gotten his own natural last pick instead of Mundi’s. But that turns out not to be true. In that scenario, we would apply the same rules as trading future draft picks. And it turns out, the rule about trading future draft picks is that draft picks in that future year must be evened out. So either way, no matter when he made the trade, he was always going to end up with Mundi’s last pick. Therefore it was always a no harm no foul situation. (Which means no rule change is needed.)