Sure. Ability/IQ to create space for your team mates is crucial attribute for a top forward.
However Correa was bought with 30m€ price tag so obviously more is required ie. those goals + assists.
I think the deal was 5 loan + 20 obligation. There are 5m in bonuses, surely, but if we sell him in the summer it's just a 25m transfer that's 20m on the books until 2025 (annual amortization at 6.7m). The bonuses probably trigger only when he's a full player but even so, he wasn't' really brought in as a starting striker but as a filler for the attack to provide things we did not have, like taking on players with the ball. He wasn't brought to pile up goals and assists but it'd be great if he also helped in that department.
The main issue is that he got injured and lost crucial moments in the season which cost us. If he was around with Liverpool - plus Barella of course - we'd probably be in the tournament's QFs (and of course we'd draw anyone but Benfica) and the season wouldn't look so grim now after that February-March period.
He looks passive at times and it's a bad image, but he's a the type of player that needs the ball at his feet, or played around his area of operation. This is also the first time he plays for a contender. Even at Argentina he hardly competed for much playing for a team that struggled to reach top 10. At 27, that hits differently. Others are ingrained in championship contention from their 15th birthday.
Julio Cruz who was a counter example (not a great one but I get the idea) was playing in Europe regularly before Bologna, won the Argentina league with River Plate (both Apertura and Clausura) in the season he played there, won the league with Feyenoord in his 2nd season there iirc and he was never a standout scorer in Italy apart from that one season with us.
This is an issue European football has nowadays, and to an extent its players. That's why they're soft. They all jump to the big leagues from the get go, have stupid experiences with no pressure most of the time that don't really help with their personal growth which makes them complacent and they lack the grit that you gather from being in a championship contention side, whether that's in Belgium, Portugal, Denmark, Greece, Poland or Serbia.
Especially players from Argentina where you have several big clubs that have this type of players, in terms of mentality, you tend to have players like Ricky Alvarez, Correa, Pastore etc that do not have this extra will to win because they're not part of a winning culture. The one advantage of Argentina is that it has a lot of derbies and big games. A lot... So players from a handful of those clubs are very likely to be exposed to do or die games several times a season. Estudiantes of Correa didn't really have that. There's Gimnasia but meh... Don't even know if they were in Primera during his time there.
Brazilians are also a bit similar, where there's a ton of big teams but not very dominant ones historically. Just teams that have winning or contention cycles (like now that's Palmeiras and Flamengo I guess but in 10 years it could be Vasco and Cruzeiro), but at least they also have their State championships that matter quite a lot to them, so even if you're overall in a bad shape, you still have a title contention spirit during a season.
These are the players that you need to catch early on and nurture in a contention environment. Someone like Dybala for example.
It's also why players from top teams of Portugal and the Netherlands are hyped. Their championship exposure is part of the deal. Having high pressure championship make or break games builds character. And Joaquin Correa does not have that. This is why I want Satriano to get loaned to a team like PSV/Feyenoord or Club Brugge/Anderlecht rather than teams like Brest or Cagliari. You want to breed players that can play under pressure and win games that matter, not just "get playing time". That's the worst thing you can do to a player's development after they're 20.