The general consensus (in the places I've read) is that the old board were incompetent blunderers. TFA seems to agree, without saying so outright.

I don't see how you can build an $80 billion operation, with a board full of blunderers. I get that it was those blunderers AND sam, until about a year ago; and I get that a year earlier still, they had several experienced businessmen on the (then larger) board.

None of the "blunderers" has spoken yet, AFAIK; I doubt they've taken the cloth and become Trappists, so I assume they're keeping their powder dry, and waiting to see how the situation shakes out.