I'm happy to give you the benefit of the doubt, but then your post makes no sense. I enjoy watching Olympic football too, but this discussion sprang out of a "what good is having two gold cups per cycle" / "what else could we do instead" debate. You said "there is always the Olympics", as if that was an answer.
We have failed to qualify in 3 of the last 4 Olympic cycles, because - as you no doubt know - the rosters on the U23 side are highly volatile, practice together less, and the international pecking order is far less certain to reflect the quality of the senior teams. Heck, Mexico failed to qualify in 2000 and 2008. CONCACAF only gets 2 bids out of 16, though it had 2.5 last cycle. So, what good would it do us to pin our hopes on that for both entertainment and practice competing at a high international level of quality? Heck, we're having trouble qualifying for a WCF that's twice the size.
We need all the experience we can get, and the Olympics ain't it. Let the Euro and South American internationals rest on their laurels - it's we who need to get up to their level. Doing so will require extraordinary vision and execution both by the US Soccer executives trying to improve penetration and pipelines in the sport in our country, as well as the players to be the best version of themselves they can be, and the US teams as a whole thereby likewise.