Neither potential president will really preside. One is barely capable at best, the other was NEVER capable.
You're not really voting for president, because neither is viable. You're voting for parties and what they may indulge. You keep talking figureheads. Keep refusing to elect anyone capable of being personally more powerful than that, while essentially admitting you could replace them with almost anyone from their respective parties, and that the optics of doing so is worse than current.