I would tend to disagree. Don't get me wrong - I believe Hubbard created scientology because he wanted cash and power. But I do think he geniuinely wanted the cult to prosper and had the skills to do so. His policy changes over time were aimed to make the cult stronger, more resilient and its members better adapted to living in the world.
Hubbard realized that times change and that the cult needs to adapt. Most of his stuff until the 80s was incremental improvements.
Davy boy? Nah he's a basket case. He couldn't find ways to improve the cult even if they came right up to him and kicked him in the ass. All he knows is how to smile at the galas and try to soldier on, while alienating most of his close coworkers and watching SCN contract.
Hubbard, like him or not, was a guy with brains and a vision that he made into an organisation that worked. Davy is just sitting idly while that organisation keeps spinning more and more out of control.
Which is why independent scn exists.
Interesting contrast between the "C suite" gurus Commodore/Cob.
In another well-organized crime syndicate (The Mafia), there are bosses at the top and there are thieving, murderous thugs at the bottom. In between there are EARNERS. Thugs with brains enough to elevate their own living standard and status by running rackets that "kicked up" tons of cash to the crime bosses.
In modern mafia lore, John Gotti was a crime-boss extraordinaire and his main "earner" was under-boss Sammy The Bull Gravano---who ran virtually all construction sites in NYC as well as the garment and garbage collections industries. All that through terrorism and murder. ]
In the COS (Crimewave of Scientology) Hubbard was the crime boss.
In the COS, Miscavige was the #1 thug-earner. Nobody made money for the cult like Miscavige---that's why they are now a multi-billion dollar cult.
WHAT HISTORY TEACHES: Because cult mafia chieftain Hubbard went nuts and died, the underboss COB took the reins of power/finance. That is what happened when the Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano died and Gotti took over. Well, specifically, Gotti had Castellano murdered in front of a famous steak house. There is no exact record to know whether Miscavige caused or accelerated Hubbard's death, so let's ignore that for now.
WHAT HAPPENED THEN: Gotti the sociopathic thug "earner" became the crime boss. Miscavige the sociopathic thug "earner" became the crime boss.
THEN WHAT? Then, the mafia flourished and prospered. Then the cult of Scientology flourished and prospered.
SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM THEN? The problem is that an "earner thug" is not the same as a mafia crime boss. A real boss avoids ALL PUBLICITY and ALL CONNECTION TO MAFIA THUGGERY. Well, Miscavige has (so far) avoided all civil & criminal liability to the thuggery known as "fair game" and "fraud". But like Gotti he is addicted to fame and glory. That is how Gotti was eventually destroyed, by his own hubris and megalomania bringing so much law enforcement heat that he was wire tapped and his own underboss turned on him. So, Gotti then went to federal prison for life where he put an end to Mafia mythology by becoming disfigured and dying of cancer.
WHAT DOES ALL THIS HAVE TO DO WITH MISCAVIGE? Miscavige understood well and "duplicates" the Hubbard hat of AVOIDING/EVADING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL/CIVIL PROSECUTION. He is, like Gotti, in love with his own mythology and seemingly miraculous powers (e.g. the "Teflon Don") and thus lives a glorified lifestyle as if he was a billionaire. All that has worked so far, but eventually this strength will become used against him as his greatest weakness. It may be sooner or later but ultimately there will be forensic accounting and secret memos/policies and cult turncoats who blow the whistle. That is already well under way.
It might even be after COB flees his post with bundles of cash. It might be after he is indicted. It might be after he is sued to death. It might be after he dies. It doesn't really matter. Eventually all of the horrific crimes and terrorism and fraud of the misfit known as COB will come to light. And another one of the great supporting pillars of the horror-filled hoax called Scientology will crumble---and the cult will reduced to even smaller fractions of their once-thriving parishioner base.
We see, already, clear and undeniable evidence that COB is destroying Scientology from the inside. The number of Scientologists has now dwindled down to maybe 15,000 worldwide. We are WATCHING IN REAL TIME a mafia thug "earner" destroy the cult
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GAMBINO CRIME FAMILY? Gotti went to prison for life and died ugly. Gravano has spent most of the previous decades in prison. Most of the notable/powerful Gambino thug hierarchy went to prison. The crime dynasty has collapsed.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO COB? That's not the important question. The right question to ask is "what will happen to Scientology?" We know the answer to that already. It will CONTINUE to collapse and implode upon itself under the weight of betrayed ex-Scientologistst who "disseminate" far better than the cult's "OTs" what a pathologically sadistic cult Scientology is. They are collapsing daily. There is no retreat for the cult, they are up against the truth by grace of the internet.