I agree with you, but this does beg the question of what the fuck Winks actually does if he's a midfielder who can't create or defend. What's the fucking point of him? He can control a ball and make simple passes. That's it. Every player should be able to do that. He's better technically than Sissoko, sure, but so are 99% of the players in the PL, so it's damning him with faint praise.
He can't even offer any kind of control in midfield. He is a good time kind of player where if the forwards in front of him are having a good day or the oppo are having a stinker, he can scuttle around playing his simple passes keeping things ticking and everyone watching probably thinks he is a tidy little player. Scratch below the surface however and you quickly realise there isn't actually much to his game apart from effort, being mobile and playing short little passes with hardly any that are incisive. When the going gets tough and it needs players in midfield to stand up, especially against better opposition, the guy is out his depth imo.
He was kind of getting in by default last season due to Dembele leaving and Dier and Wanyama struggling with injuries. On top of that, he probably looked great technically next to Sissoko who'd struggle trapping a sack of cement. I'm actually fairly confident Skipp could come in and offer us what Winks does with the difference being one is 19 with minimal game time and the other is nearing 24 years old with 70 odd games for us behind him. Seriously, I'd sell Winks in the next 2 windows and I think Mourinho will cut down his playing time and won't be long before he goes looking for a move to get regular first team football at Watford/Bournemouth or something.