The biggest risk and obstacle to this deal is nobody in the C-Suite at Disney understands what this entails technologically or operationally.

If you’re Josh D’Amaro, buying Epic Games will reveal you to be a luddite relative to thirty-something executives two levels down from Tim Sweeney.

D’Amaro understands Disney needs a shift in trajectory post-Iger, but he won’t risk the optics of his job for it.