I've spammed this point many times but i cant help repeating it.
Ambitious, sociopathic middle aged "alpha" CEO types like this will NEVER let go of the company they built. Unless they voluntarily leave on their own terms. And even then, if these dudes are still walking into the building after "stepping down", that means they haven't let go, they havent really left.
Look at YG, like a nasty cockroach, dude goes into hiding after one of the biggest scandals in Kpop, evades all charges and is now back front and center being interviewed in Baemon's predebut videos. Even JYP who "stepped down" from being CEO, the man still spends every single day walking into the JYPE building, everyone knows that he is still the defacto head of the company with veto power over everything he wants control over, no matter what official job title he has. Similarly with BangPD, the man runs Hybe - Kpoppies on TW fighting tooth and nail about Hybe subsidiaries being "independent" and all that nonsense, meanwhile nothing happens with Ador or Source or Pledis without BangPD's approval.
LSM will never just stay away from SM. Like it will literally take his final passing to separate him from SM, he will always be scheming to find a way back in.