This actually bubbled up into my brain as well, but I just put it off as my political paranoia being overly active.
Given that nobody really anticipated Eich being put into the CEO clot, I wonder if some big battle happened in the background. So, the board said "Fine, here's your shot. Enjoy." and dropped him into the soup to let him sink.
No one works those kind of places without having sharpened their Machevelli playbook.
Clearly he failed at that and so should be out on that basis alone, irregardless of appearing to hate the LGBTQ community.