What a load of malarkey. You could find a thousand candidates willing to sign up in minutes. Not sure how great they'd be but they couldn't be much worse.
Hopefully, this means that when he steps down he will just shut down the service and close it out.
Or he's just making things up for attention as always and will change his mind when he feels like it.
This is non-news.
Wake me up when something is announced, all the "feeling sad might delete later" is crowding the frontpage.