Following your logic, will the facilities engineer at your corporate headquarters be given executive responsibility in place of your CEO?
Good question. One must realize there is a difference between a CEO and a Ship Master. A Ship Master functions under the banner of 'Command' and not a modern management sysem that shore based CEO's function. Fact is CEO's heading say a Power industry can be from a totally different background. The faciliies Engineer in a company manufacturing pickups does not understand many commercial aspects that the CEO does, even though he may be from another background. However if the faciliies engineer say resigns does open his own concern and runs it successfully, he has no legal block to becoming a CEO in the concerned facility.
This is precisely my point. Why should "command" be compulsorily retained only by persons who specialize primarily in the Navigational/ steering aspect of a vessel. Ships today have become increasingly sophisticated on the echnical aspect, while bridge aids and pilot support at harbor entrances mandatory in most countries. Whether it's orres Straits, Shanghai river, or the entrance to any harbor or dropping off the vessel to deep sea, no country allows Masters to independently navigate their vessels into or out of ports.
Companies do try and look to making their operations more effective and keep expenses down and lay less stress on the sentimental aspect of things.