Carp,
You raise some good points, but I don't think there is any way to fairly compare Urshan and Haney, and more than you can compare Sammy Sosa to The Babe.
It's a different game.
Nathaniel Urshan was definitely a man with charisma and clout, a leader with a personality as big as a Mack truck.
He had a degree of influence that I doubt we will ever see replicated in a General Superintendent.
Some of this is because of the change in our society, and some of it is because we had a man like him for so long.
Leadership seems to run in cycles. People usually want something different than what they have had.
One of the big problems I see is exactly what you named--lack of clear direction and definition.
This isn't altogether Brother Haney's fault, either.