While the glass cliff concept is a thing Pao was still grossly incompetent for what her position meant, although that could have been intentionally weaponised against her by someone cunning enough.

Oddly enough she had a small redemption moment later on during "Spezgate" when Spez edited that post proving admins could manipulate user content without leaving any "this post has been edited" messages. Pao said she would have fired him on the spot for doing that.