When you give a lot of power to someone with a lot of talent, great things can happen. The downside is that nobody’s perfect (even talented people) so a person

When you give a lot of power to someone with a lot of talent, great things can happen. The downside is that nobody’s perfect (even talented people) so a person with a lot of power can make a wrong decision and that may be all it takes for the decision to be final. In that type of structure, preventing wrong decisions comes down to things like the personality traits, wisdom, etc. of the people with all the power. In other words, is he or she the type of person that can be convinced NOT to do something that they would otherwise decide to do? I can only observe what has come out of Apple in recent years. I immediately saw things I disliked in their software when Jony Ive was also put in charge of software (to this day, much of iOS-7-style apps seem form-over-function to me and I want more gradients, damn-it). And there were also some massive hardware failures, most of all keyboards, screens and Touch Bars. If Jony made most of these calls and just couldn’t be convinced otherwise, I’m glad he’s gone and look forward to a happy medium of “pretty nice but usable” hardware and software.