A staff of incompetent sycophants and palace guards only works when times are placid, hastens turmoil, and its team's demise.
This is a failure mode unless failure is the goal.
Ask Vlad.
Why would it backfire? He basically says he’s smarter than any of the bureaucrats. So let’s just give him a chance to fix it all by himself, as he promised he would do.
An idiot lighting a room full of hydrogen and oxygen gas on fire is a lot more fun from a safe distance.