Keg , I believe there are a few issues being conflated here.
If the Management prerogative of certain Managerial appointments was based purely on the concept of “best person” for the job , then begrudgingly? there would be no argument !
Unfortunately what we see is definitely no Dutchy and certainly not even close to a Dolly !
Do you reckon Owen would have retained his management position for the last decade if he wasn’t delivering?
The million $ question , just what is being delivered ? , apart from the plum jobs of ferrying aircraft to the desert ?
The bastardisation of the original nobel concept of the best person for the position
in order to circumvent past practice and principle appears to be the growing trend .