It always takes years to properly evaluate how well a company/manager is performing, and the right course of action at any moment in time is never obvious, not

It always takes years to properly evaluate how well a company/manager is performing, and the right course of action at any moment in time is never obvious, not even to the people on the inside making the decisions, let alone outside observers. If the "right thing to do" was obvious, then every sideline observer could just go ahead and start a company doing all the "obvious" things and be wildly successful. Obviously this isn't the case. I'm content to reserve judgement and see what happens over the long term. Others are completely free to judge based on day-to-day drama, of course. But for their own sake I hope they keep a note of their assessments and predictions now, and check back in a few years to see how well they did.