There is a clear direction they need to take, and they won't do it. If they want a classic team, I would suggest pairing Edward J. Scott & David Shaughnessy as co-executive producers. I hate to say it... but a primetime producer would TANK this soap. The fans of Young seem very... set in their ways (way more than other soaps I would say), so bringing in a primetime heavyweight would be reminiscent of Mal Young being hired. Jill Farren Phelps was tasked with bringing Young into the 21st century and modernize it, and it backfired worse than anything I've seen in daytime in recent memory. Modern does not work at this soap, and it won't ever. Fans will not allow it.
If it were me, and I doubt this to happen⏤I would find a way to bring Wendy Riche on, even if for a one-year tenure, to restructure things. She talked to William J. Bell when she took over General Hospital and her POV could really be influential on this soap. I believe it. Her work on The Bay is example of that. I don't suspect former writers would return, either, and if they did it would have to be Kay Alden, and I don't see her returning, so we'd have to go new. I'd like to see the likes of Marlene McPherson & Darrell Ray Thomas Jnr, or even McPherson and her former All My Children co-head writer Elizabeth Snyder come aboard. This soap needs some female influence bad. Plus, Snyder worked on Bold from 2003 to 2010 so she has some slight idea of a Bell soap.