I don't hate the trade for Minnesota, but a lot of it will depend on if Gobert and Towns can co exist. If they can and Edwards continues to improve, they should be a very good basketball team. They have limited assets to improve but their biggest improvement should come internally from Edwards. I don't see this ending up a total disaster as long as KAT and Edwards stay healthy and the latter continues to improve. Sometimes trades look bad on paper but talent ends up winning out.
With that said, the play in game changes things a little bit re non protected picks. Nowadays, you can be the 7th seed and finish in the lottery. The 7th seed this year won 44 (Cavs) and 46 (Wolves). In 18/19, the 7th seed out west won 48. In 17/18, 47.
In 2014/15, the 7th seed out west had 50 wins (Mavs). In a weird season, it's possible the Wolves could go 50-32, lose 2 play in games and win the lottery. That's the difference between "not hating" the trade and "liking" the trade for me. Besides that, there's a real chance the Wolves could win 44-46 games and still miss the playoffs. If the Jazz get a late lottery pick or even 2 late lottery picks out of this trade, it's not that big a deal but with the lottery, there's always that chance they land a top 4.
The same can be said for the C's and their pick swap. You don't have to be an awful team to end up in the lottery anymore. You can say this about any of the huge pick swap deals, really. The teams trading for pick packages now have a much better chance of landing a top 4 pick and/or lottery pick than they did a few years ago. I think that's a good thing, actually. The Spurs can always hope the C's go 45-37 and lose 2 play in games. Before, they'd have to hope the C's would go 38-44 and miss the playoffs completely.