He had also inherited a fractious religious landscape, one in which his efforts to centralise state control over the church were unfairly seen as crypto-Catholicism.
There is this broad trend to centralise everything on the internet through massive networks like Twitter and Facebook that just churned everybody up together in one place.
These efforts to centralise church authority were run through Laud, a firm believer in episcopalianism, the idea of ruling a church firmly through bishops and officials.
The day after taking back control at Burbank, Mr Iger swiftly set out to dismantle the centralising strategy orchestrated by Mr Chapek, putting decision-making back in the hands of Disney's creators.