[listenallyall]

C'mon buddy, you joined a near 20-year-old company that has never defined its own raison d'etre (or didn't stick to it), never really found a niche in the marketplace, never been particularly profitable, has been passed around to multiple owners, never had any reputation for any brilliant or highly-innovative engineering (except perhaps overcoming some now-obsolete, 2004-era video limitations), and whose stock price was 70-80% below its IPO price.

Were you actually expecting no technical debt, a clear mission statement, no internal dysfunction, no bored/confused/exhausted/dont-give-a-shit coworkers, no executive carousel, and no further ownership changes?

This story reads a bit like buying an old, beat-up, rusted-out car from a stranger on the side of the road, then being surprised it doesn't run smoothly.