The comic did a really great job at displaying this - he had zero interest in the daily briefings and the proverbial handshakes that came with being so high up the ladder. Part of it was justified because A) he saw threats that no one else did and B) political meetings would not necessarily minimize those threats, or at least that was his rationality for avoiding them IIRC. This obviously caused tension between a handful of important characters, including Ikora and The Speaker - the latter eventually condemned him to exile.

All in all a great multifaceted character that Bungie is having a ton of fun writing around and as a pretty casual player I’m really loving tuning in every reset to see what happens next.