@Redice, this entire story is about how a good leader only needs to be one who surrounds themselves with competent people, right? The MC's defining strength is his ability to bring disparate but talented people together, regardless of how he does it.
@DerpySausage Basically, his defining strength is plot. It's a given, he's the MC. Doesn't make him any less of a blank slate of a character though.
Change him into a letter from the future that foretells the end of the world, with a complete index of events, that Bailen managed to find, and the story still losses nothing of value.