I'm gonna go back a bit to the posts about Stevie praying to the commercial gods:
What's wrong with that? I don't think in any way she was inferring "let me be a radio star splashed about in the media like Britney or myself back in the day!"
I think it was more like "after all this time and work, please let us still have an audience".
And she might have been thinking: we are minus Christine and Lindsey is going out on a limb again(and this isn't 1979), will that put people off? So she wrote a song that sounded like a radio hit...maybe with hit potential in mind (SYW), but isn't that what this incarnation of Fleetwood Mac is famous for, well crafted, radio friendly pop-rock? Of course she'd pray for success, what else would she pray for, that Lindsey feels artistically satisfied? Let him pray for that himself.
And the part about her assistant: I do agree she always seems to want to have people around. She had the band, but without Christine she probably didn't feel she really had someone from her camp. And she does, and always has, complained about dominant men in the music business. She projects a somewhat fragile, passive personna e.g. comments about not liking organizing the solo tours because she "doesn't like being the boss and having to make all the decisions". And judging by Lindsey's past & present dominant behavior, I'm surprised any of them want to work with him again. Except they do know his creative part in the band as the architect of their sound, which makes me think Stevie was obviously not the only one praying to the gods of commerce. You know Mick probably sold his soul to the devil to make the tour such a huge success, after his prayers to the gods of commerce weren't answered for his film career or his auction business or his wine selling, etc. etc.
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