> why would a business run the same without the person who did all the work doing it?
This is the part that I don't get either. I can imagine hearing "this coffee shop got better since the new owners", but I know I have heard "this place used to be good until it changed owners". And since the new owners have paid X years of profit which they arguably want to recover in less than X years, it is more than likely that they'll start cutting costs as a result.
So I wouldn't have a reason to believe that a business with new owners would run just as well as before, and in fact I would expect the opposite.
This is the part that I don't get either. I can imagine hearing "this coffee shop got better since the new owners", but I know I have heard "this place used to be good until it changed owners". And since the new owners have paid X years of profit which they arguably want to recover in less than X years, it is more than likely that they'll start cutting costs as a result.
So I wouldn't have a reason to believe that a business with new owners would run just as well as before, and in fact I would expect the opposite.