This whole sorry saga has the malodorous whiff of Senior Officers covering their anal cavities. The pilot must have undergone rigorous examination and competition to be given the job in the first place. With all that, plus his display practice experience, surely a debrief, followed by a temporary increase in minimum display height, with subsequent authorised lowering to absolute minima, should have solved the problem.
If ever the RAF needed a top display pilot, this was the season. If this 'Staff College Approach' to display flying gets any worse, all future displays in the UK will be by foreign military aircraft and civilians.
What a wasted opportunity.