If you are going to have a National Trust and considering the rich heritage we have in buildings and art and all the rest of it we actually do need one.....then you do need it run by those who value them and aren't predisposed to regarding this heritage politically negatively.....It just doesn't work to have prominent voices from within that structure working against that very heritage.....Well it works insomuch as less people want to be associated with the National Trust and that people become concerned that the people gifted these important positions aren't in fact safe stewards of these treasures.
So I go much further than you on concern on this issue. This is the inevitable direction of travel we have seen for years now and it reflects very badly on those who make the appointments.....quite frankly the decisions makers on certain appointments should be sacked.
I would agree that the National Trust of the past was perhaps a bit stuffy but now I regard that as a vast improvement to the embarrassment of the modern day.....which many people just see as just more evidence of national decline due to the left/social liberals.