I don't think Ainge is an idiot. I think he's made some great moves and some bad moves (like every major decision maker with any important job) and this was a bad one.
I think he was sitting on Rondo while teams were offering him pretty good assets like Ben McLemore, and he was holding and holding to try to get a great one. Then he got desperate, overreacted to his bad situation and sold Rondo for just plain bad assets.
How is any of that going to change with Wright.
It changes since you can let your player walk, but still have two draft picks you wouldn't have had without the trade.
I can't argue if you think that a mid first and a second round draft pick are somewhere around what you expected to sell Rondo for. Now you have that and you might be able to sell Wright for more assets like that, and Crowder might turn into Jared Dudley.
I wouldn't have sold Rondo unless I got a legitimate asset, and we didn't get one IMO. If we got to the deadline, and all we could get was salary filler and a first (even a worse one) I would take it. But I think Danny uncharacteristically hit the panic button.