The decision on whether to pick a QB at #3 or trade down is a pretty big freaking decision. I don't begrudge the Krafts at all from having some seat at the table or being consulted or whatever you want to call it. It's a completely different level of interference if they were weighing in on which LT to pick in the 2nd round.
Part of management isn't just getting the right people in the door and empowering them, but also in having the skills to question their thought processes and make sure they're considering things the way you would hope they would. Jeff Bezos is known to grill his top people on big decisions, and then rather than imposing his own opinion as a verdict, will often just say something like "ok, I trust you guys" and lets a vetted consensus stand, even if it runs contrary to his gut instinct. But that vetting has value. It ensures people have their numbers right, have considered the alternatives, have thought about tradeoffs and priorities, can credibly articulate how a choice fits within a strategy, etc.Right, but then the decision whether to draft a QB or not is no longer “doing what’s best for the team” or “following our draft evaluations” or whatever other cliche personnel guys would use to justify those moves. By adding the Krafts - other than just telling them this is our plan - you’re injecting the business/PR aspect into the decision which is not something anyone should be happy about.
What input are the Krafts going to have that will actually be net positive for the roster building? They should trust the guys they dumped Belichick for, presumably because they think Wolf/Groh are the right people to get the team back to the playoffs.
If Jonathan Kraft is overruling his football people on decisions that would otherwise be a consensus, then that is of course deeply concerning. But him merely having a seat at the table on big bet-the-team kind of decisions, and seeing firsthand how his top people make decisions, is not necessarily a sign of micromanaging.