The man left prior to Apple facing, and losing, a class action lawsuit over his favored keyboard design. Screens also died left and right in designs approved by him, and his next great innovation would be the Touch Bar.
Everyone focuses on M1 as supposedly super chip that fixed all the "intel problems" of Macbooks, but similarly large difference was how first M1 series reversed a bunch of Johnny Ive era designs including how forcibly thin it was.
It was a precipitous fall from grace