Hi hello, founding government member of NG here. Gov of iFOK when we merged into NG and held various NG gov positions for the next 4 years after founding ranging from mid gov to triumvir. Current MoIA
What former leaders are you talking about regarding this "true and objectively better NG," because a pretty significant portion of the people who have been running NG for the last 11 years have counselled Lyanna in some form.
You can screech all you want about ly's legitimacy but she has literally decades of NG leadership experience backing her and she has been instrumental in bringing about one of the most coherent forms NG has ever experienced.