Maybe he wont get fired because his boss understands that he, his boss, put together a flawed team that, if things went right enough, could nevertheless contend for a WC with better things on the horizon. Unfortunately, Cora has mismanaged them into contending for a WC. They are indeed substantially talented at some things, and they are substantially *not* talented at others.
No one has any idea how much "laissez-faire bullshit" is happening. Yet many assume it's lot, because of unwilingness to assign any blame at all to the players themselves. (As if players deserve "blame" for sucking at certain aspects of the game; but that's another discussion). Like the players and every other manager, Cora's far from perfect. But I'm guessing that if any of us has watched the first 140 games of some other teams' seasons we'd find that plenty of other managers suck more than Cora does.
You may well be right. And I actually think most Red Sox managers have been bad - liking Cora second best after Francona after 45 years of watching the Red Sox closely. Yes, the players deserve blame and roster construction, too. And Cora has his strengths. Though I think those strengths play well into a team that doesn't need a lot of guidance, like the 2018 team, and that's been sort of revealed this season.
There is certainly lots of conjecture here about laissez-faire stuff. I don't know for sure, but, like everyone else, looking at context clues and making a guess informed, again, by over 40 years of watching not just baseball but many sports. Well-coached teams in all sports seem to share some qualities: they know how to play defense, they are fundamentally sound, they play intelligently and minimize unforced errors, they play with consistent energy and focus, they put the whole ahead of individual glory, and they find creative solutions to problems.
I'm not sure any of these things are happening with the 2021 Red Sox. Indeed, it is a very flawed construction, and in some ways Scwarber's addition exacerbated perhaps the main achilles heal (D), albeit while lengthening the line up.
There is an element to watching sports and in making posts here: there are many things we can't know, and the internal reality is certainly more complex than what we see. But that doesn't mean we can't make reasonably insightful subjective observations. It seems a common trump card, in response to criticism: well, how you can you KNOW that? You can't ... but you can make informed guesses, and if evidence proves them wrong you say so.
I don't have it out for Cora, nor do I find him to be the cause of all their problems. I see him more critically now, then at the start of the season, and it is absolutely not arguable that the Red Sox are an undisciplined team: they are free swingers with no plate discipline (until Schwarber came along, though he really put that in relief with his mature disciplined at bats), they run the bases wildly and stupidly, they are terrible fielders who not only make physical errors, but also mental ones, and they have a poor capacity to execute some common fundamentals .....
So .... not sure where to go with that totality but to eye the coach, even if it's not all on him.