What this thread tells us is that President Shanahan did not trust his own greenhorn GM Dubas with his inexperience to leave him alone and unchecked.
He almost had to act as his parental guidance and take a hands on approach and put himself up as the guardrails between GM and MLSE BOD to prevent really bad mistakes in trades and signings from occurring, by weighing in and putting his thumb on the scale, and at times even telling Kyle "NO" not going to happen on my watch.
The power play and power struggle we also heard about between them that resulted in Dubas dismissal, was all about Kyle wanting his own training wheels removed now, and get more autonomy and authority to make his own decisions, and sell them to the MLSE BOD directly himself.
It's going to be so nice once we have a real and experienced GM sitting in the Chair again, and then Shanny can go back to doing his President's stuff and Leafs organization goes back to operating as any normal one would expect the chain of command and authority with the position to occur.