User blog comment:Demotivator/Wiki Has Gone Down The Drain/@comment-30257898-20191005140719/@comment-43971197-20191005155556

Sage is super unpopular. Even if he does well for a while, people will constantly be watching his every move, show their dislike at every turn, blame every little thing, etc. until he eventually slips under the pressure and makes the one mistake that everyone will jump and burn him at the stake over it.

That's what I meant by "living with a gun on the temple".

If the popular sentiment doesn't improve at least a little, dropping the position would probably the happier path for him.

It sure would suck, but it still beats the scenario above.