You said it!
He is taking a lot of responsability and decisions. Without nobody taking any responsabilities or decisions most project fail.
He will be the one that people blame or worship. That is it!
I think he will succeed.
Rijk is not closed at all to his community. But he has his filter system. I can not blame him, with all the BS out there!
He his a decision maker and he sticks to his opinions!
It is as it is!
If you go to any business school you will know this. In the best of times, if you have a good, genius dictator running a company from scratch, you MIGHT get moderate success. The moment you're entering broad, mainstream adoption that model always fails.
That's in the best of times.