Wasn't that for the founders being able to focus on the moonshots and pay there while making Pichain CEO of Google, so they don't have to deal with that day to

Wasn't that for the founders being able to focus on the moonshots and pay there while making Pichain CEO of Google, so they don't have to deal with that day to day? (Which then was ridiculed relatively short after when they made Pichai CEO of all Alphabet ... or was that just him passing the probation period?