It’s not the point.
There was sufficient time to get the right man.
Nobody is suggesting rushing for the sake of it/giving the job to anybody at all who wants it.
But
You’d hope that the selection committee and CB are at least privately acknowledging that the process ran on too long.
Identifying why.
Intending that this won’t happen the next time etc.
Anybody involved who cannot acknowledge that the length of time it took (& the public manner in which Maher was offered the job) made the process look very amateurish/desperate shouldn’t be involved again.