For me the issue was Ive.

Obviously a talented designer, Jobs was the only one who would have reined in his excess and questioned his ideas.

Jobs passes and Ive gets promoted as he is the company golden boy. It goes from Ive working around Engineering to the other way around. This is how we ended up with butterfly keys and one port devices. Nobody questions him because of his stature.

Ive leaves and all of a sudden we get ports back, MagSafe and Pro laptops that are physically heavy and thick but fly like a rocket.

That’s not a coincidence.