The only reason he's still CEO is that he's milked the Google brand for all its worth and has made everyone a shit ton of money.
Other than that, the direction he's been giving Google, as a brand, has been terrible.
I don't know if we should put them on a pedastal.
[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-sergey-brin-employees...
People are not wrong to do so. Those two are not causing the problems. They can carry some blame for inaction, sure, but not that much of the blame.
What? That happened with Eric Schmidt. Coming from old-school Oracle, old corporate. He said "Brands is how you sort out this mess" and killed the variety in google search by prioritizing big brands. That's why you get search results from only the biggest corporate outlets in every other category. He succeeded in bumping shoe shopping searches and sales for Amazon etc, but killed the independent web.