I feel the DCE is just getting too much hate just being at a level 95% can't reach.

If you think he is showboating by carrying 3 teams simultaneously for the hackathon, why don't you try yourself doing it for 4 teams? or even come up with some next level multi disciplinary project?

As for leadership issues, as they say, the mountain can only have one tiger, and definitely it's not up to the DCE to 'step up'. If they wanted the DCE to make leadership decisions then make him the CE already. so currently what you see is the result of the BOG, and not the DCE. The CE is usually selected to be someone the BOG feels they can 'control' and someone too capable may not be ideal for them.

Govtech isn't going to turn into Big Tech simply because the mission and definitely the scale is totally different.