Yeah, I feel too that at the beginning it was probably a cohesive band effort, Kevin Moore went and the JP / MP duo took over, MP's influence grew bigger and bigger and now with him gone JP leads the show with the others feeling more at ease.
I wonder however if this was a circular problem, I mean... one of the quotes from Mike that I remember was something about the lines of "Sure, the other guys are involved as well but I watch over the details, if you ask them what's the b-side to the Hollow Years single, they probably don't know". Mike was overseeing everything because he wanted to, or because he had to? sure at the end it got to a point where he probably felt the need to watch over everything, but did he boss around the others (Another thing I remembered is him saying he was wearing down the others until they agreed) or he watched over the details because no one else bothered to say "Hey, this time around let me take charge of the merchandise" or "Hey, by now I figured out your setlists creation process, wanna some help? mind some suggestions?"...
Probably the truth lies in between, that's why there's not a clear right or wrong in situations like these... whatever their issues are, those most private and those who have been made public, I'm pretty sure everyone thinks they did the right thing, no way Mike thinks to himself "Yeah, I was a bossy dictator" or the others "Damn, I never ever cared for what kind of t-shirts we were selling".