This is interesting but a bit self-serving. Imagine going around where you work and interviewing someone about their job:
"Is your job easy?"
"The days of my job being easy are over. Everyday I work very hard."
etc.
Especially when you blame your investors for how hard your job is these days: "[It] used to be that way but its changed in the last ten years because the activists [investors] have gotten more involved."
Those darn meddling activists!