7U travel team: position specialization? focus on winning?

Seeking some objective advice and perspective. After two seasons of rec, my kid made our town's 7U travel team. He's among the smaller and less skilled kids on the team, but he tries hard and hustles, and is one of the team's most focused and best-behaved players.

Throughout the fall, the head coach played my kid and a few other kids exclusively in the outfield. (Literally not one inning in the infield.) Inversely, other kids have only played infield. For example, one kid has played second base all game for each of our 6 games. For batting, the coach bat my kid last in the lineup in all but one game.

In after-game huddles, the coaches focus almost exclusively on what went wrong and why our team didn't win. (We went 0-6.)

For what it's worth, I helped on the field at every game and practice in the fall, but I'm not an "official" coach and seemingly not able to influence the coach's strategy, which he summed up to the 6- and 7-year-olds as: "some of your will play some positions more than others ... that is the nature of athletics."

Isn't 7U a little early for position specialization? In my mind, all of the kids would benefit from playing a greater variety of positions. And is this strong focus on winning common for 7U travel teams?

All I know is that my kid and some of the other kids clearly aren't having fun. And the prospect of only playing outfield and hitting last every game isn't making my 7-year-old very excited about playing in the spring, or baseball in general.