While having some sort of a draft seems obviously beneficial to parity, it's a whole different question whether or not it's actually best to reward the worst team. You can't compare a league that has no draft to a league that has some kind of a draft.
It's vastly different if every team just needs to entice the best players with money, as opposed to every team getting to pick at least some good players.
The lottery draft was from the start an obviously broken way of trying to fix the original problem of tanking. Simply sometimes giving the first overall to someone else than the last team overall does nothing to change the overall situation; on average tanking is still beneficial.
You could even argue that tanking is even more beneficial now, since you could argue that more teams have a motivation to tank now for the hope that they MIGHT get the first overall if they only finished a little lower.
I think my solution right now would be to have full lottery of the first 14 picks among the teams out of the playoffs. I think that's as fair as it needs to be. If a team can't drag itself out of the bottom of the league by picking mid- to high firsts year after year, they don't deserve it anyway. They don't need the absolute first pick.
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