Honestly, I don’t get that argument. We’d be creating, as HumanSanity put it, an “unaccountable and life-tenured position” and doing that for the sake of a neat little formality seems like a strange choice of priorities to me.
Why is the position of the Dean just a neat little formality? I personally believe elections for the Chair of the Assembly, or even performing the duties of the Chair of the Assembly, aren’t just small formalities but rather are important parts of our governmental system.