I don't see any other set up we can play that would be more effective, for the time being. We have no wingers, no decent strikers and our attacking midfielders are in the mould of industrious players like McGinn and Ferguson rather than your typical number 10. Regardless, I don't think you can say that Clarke is just trying to shoehorn the best players we have into our team, we've been playing this way and this system for the vast majority of his tenure. We've been playing it before Giilmour and Hickey came into the set-up, he used McTominay in defence at the start of it, we've stuck with it when Tierney's not been fit, getting another striker in in Adams didn't change it. It's clearly the system he believes gets the best out of the players available to us, rightly or wrongly.
Doak might be the one that encourages a change, but still a while away from him being a cast iron member of the squad.