The thing is, leaving just before Covid hit wasn't in their control but they could have spent that hiatus doing useful stuff and coming up with a workable strategy for the future. Instead, they started the campaign against the RF, went mansion shopping and were papped. Anything better got lost in the generally lurid way they behaved.
I'm never sure if they are not advised or just reject anything that is the germ of a sensible longterm plan in favour of the flash and the immediate, but if there was ever evidence that the 21st century equivalent of the "men in grey suits" keep the royal show on the road, these two are it.