Exactly. There was no longer any FAA director. The Aviation Safety Advisory Committee was disbanded. Civil Service buyout offer was offered to everybody, including Air Traffic Controllers so they could just “walk away” and get a severance package. There was a hiring freeze so if they did, they could no refill the position. There was no thought to that.
So yes, Inexperience, unqualified, and lack of knowledge are the reasons for this crash.
Aviation is not Twitter.