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Considering his position and how the games industry as a whole grew in the last 10 years or so of his life he may not have been able to personally oversee everything going on, and as good a man as he was there's no denying he was only human so mistakes were made and were he still here he'd still be making mistakes, but at least he wasn't afraid to try new things when stuff wasn't working and he acted with integrity and dedication to the players until the end. When the wii u failed he cut his salary so nobody had to lose their job and they got the switch out asap instead of trying to milk the garbage already on shelves with game after game getting rushed out to try to grab a non-existent audience, even from his hospital bed he was working to make pokemon go the best it could be and while it's still far from perfect it was the first widely successful game of it's kind and the first time a western developer was given a chance to work on pokemon and it was by far the most ambitious attempt at a pokemon game ever given the real world aspects of it and the fact that it does have a multi-year plan well beyond the lifespan of a mainline game or even the average console. Go's success may have lead to the death of the mainline games but damn did they try to fulfill everyone's childhood dream of going out into the world to catch pokemon and go on their own adventures, and with enough time and better oversight for the franchise as a whole it still has the potential to deliver. Iwata may not be the savior everyone claims he would be if he were here right now, but he did show that after the kind of backlash dexit brought there would have been changes and a proper apology, assuming he didn't have the foresight to stop it from happening in the first place. Sure, if he had to fix it later it would probably end up being patches, but it would happen, especially coming right off the failure of the wii u and several other games getting fixed due to fans' feedback.
