It's flattery of the team, but it also undermines all the _stum und drang_ over his firing 'destroying' OA, if the leadership team was so wonderful that his abs

It's flattery of the team, but it also undermines all the _stum und drang_ over his firing 'destroying' OA, if the leadership team was so wonderful that his absence would make no difference. If that is the case, it wasn't his firing that would destroy OA, but his reaction to it...