+2, Takuan, good enough! In fact, you spark off quite a convo from the barflies.
No-one MINDS Vigo as such... the Serpent has had worse leaders. He;s not even a bad leader; the Serpent holds together well, even if at the periphery it is a law unto itself. If anyone has a complaint about Vigo, it is that he is boring. Not boring personally; he has a great charisma, as you have seen...
... but the Serpent was founded on the legend of Siva. Siva was quite physically capabl;e bu he was mjore than just a bully; he was an organisational genius, creating plots within plots that secured power over half a Galaxy from an organisation h built from scratch. People miss those days. Vigo never tries anything radical or different; he does what he does well but... people like to see new things.
In many ways, the Serpent is becoming like the Hutts. The Hutts are like the Cynellise; they live for ages and take the long-term view of everything; things in the Hutts are uch the same now as they have been for millennia.
The Serpent has always been run by (relatively) short-lived Humans. It has always been bright and new and fresh and daring and exciting. Sometimes it is tried to be too clever for its own good and lost out, but at least it tried. Now it is stuck in a rut. But still they don't complain as such, because it is making money, it is secured, and it is as powerful as it ever was. Vigo is feared, his name causes many things to happen. But will it last?
Take the rising independance of the outer areas- the Citadel is almost an irrelevance to them. Power has devolved out to smaller headquarters elsewhere (some run by the Lantarnan kids, others now). They will grow too powerful for their own boots, and so Vigo will smash them. No-one doubts he will do it, he's good at that sort of thing., But they will grow again, and he will smash them again, and so on... where is the person who can twist them all around his finger so that they never become a threat? Siva was like that. Vigo is not a politician- as you already heard, noit an administrator- he does well in letting plotd cancel each oither out... but he never really could come up with a plot himself.
No-one minds him then. He's a solid leader. But... no-one would cry for him if someone better replaced him.
But who can replace him? Bora? If Bora does, it will be the same, but Bora just might not be able to smash the rebellious cells. Frankly, people will do anything rather than accept Bora. Mika then? Everyone expects Mika to kill Bora at some point. Mika could do it. But he's not well liked; he has no interpersonal touch. Jena, of course, is perfect- she is exactly the sort of person who could run the Serpent. But she's a woman; it can't happen. Deva is irreleant; he neither seeks it, wants it, or could get it. Yago would love it, but obviously he is a tremendous cretin. Incdientally, Vigo disowns Yago semi-regularly. People here are used to it.
So... no great problems with Vigo as such... just problems in general. Of course most of the Serpent is just dumb muscle and doesn't care; these people are mostly loudmouths. You;d have to go higher to get more directly useful info.