Let's be clear from the outset: No one, who has a longer-term view, especially enjoys the All Blacks scoring recording record wins over the Wallabies.
Yes, there is the instant gratification of success and rugby skills running rampant as they did in the first 40 minutes in Sydney on Saturday in the much-awaited Bledisloe III.
However, Australia's capitulation on home turf was a worry for the health of the game across the Tasman.
It is something that has been a concern for some time, even before the much-criticised Michael Cheika reign.
Former Wallabies had been crying out for years over their concerns regarding the disconnect between those supposedly running the game with those on the lower levels trying to provide the sustenance to keep the game growing.
Changes made to the administration, and the appointment of a new coach, were seen as the cure-all for Australia and it wasn't long before the noises started suggesting Australia was suddenly king of the roost again.
Utterances from new chairman Hamish McLennan defied the status and performance of the organisation he was representing. It signalled a new, if so far unwarranted, belief that all was on track in the Australian game.
With the Covid-19 pandemic stretching the resources and imagination of not only sports administrators, but public service officials and appointees around the world, there was some uncharted territory to be explored.
Australia chose a less than suitable gunboat diplomacy by claiming the hosting rights of the Rugby Championship from New Zealand, but it became a clear case of 'Be careful what you wish for'.
South Africa, bedevilled by the worst of the virus, in comparison to the South Pacific nations, couldn't fulfil its obligation. That was always likely to happen given the state of the virus at home. So the Championship became a Tri Nations with Argentina, a side that has had little rugby at all in 2020.
At the same time, Rugby Australia was trying to negotiate a television rights agreement that, at the time of writing, had still not been disclosed.
Then, McLennan got unctuous over the invitation for only some Australian teams to partake of a trans-Tasman Super Rugby series next season. New Zealand was labelled 'arrogant' over its stance.
New Zealand didn't believe Australia had four teams capable of mixing it with the New Zealanders while Australia took the different view.
The Australians then appeared to feel after a draw in the first Bledisloe Cup Test in Wellington that their position on the moral high ground had suddenly obtained impregnable status.
This after a draw!
A week later there was a check on the back of an All Blacks win in Auckland. Ah, but that was Eden Park, and Australia hadn't won there since 1986, so it would all be clear back on home soil in Sydney.
Well, guess what?
There was a huge flock of chickens flying into ANZ Stadium at full time on Saturday as they came home to roost.
Suddenly the disparity in depth between the two nations was indisputable.
Eighteen years without success in the Bledisloe Cup is a long time, but in the history of trans Tasman rivalry, it is not unprecedented.
For all that, throughout history, New Zealand has never neglected the Australian game. Nor will it now. New Zealand administrators know that at their best the Australians can play the game as well as anybody.
What is needed now is for Australia's administrators to take a big, deep breath and appreciate that one draw in Wellington is not the elixir for the ills that beset their game. The path ahead is much longer, and careful hands would be best applied to the helm to pursue a steady course, instead of diverting off-stream in the one-upmanship game.