//I don't actually see May as the disaster others do//
This rather surprises me - I can't think of a single major policy commitment that May has not U-turned on (Europe, social care, the election, housing, foreign worker quotas, Hinkley Point, ECHR, Energy price caps, etc etc).
Even by the normal standards of politicians she is one of the most staggeringly inconsistent leaders we have ever had. I quite liked her myself at the very start, but then she immediately reversed course on all the things I liked.
Her main goal just seems to be to cling desperately onto power by any means necessary. I thought it was particularly significant that in her speech she specifically dismissed claims that her govt was there "to keep power for the sake of keeping power." Now why on earth would she feel the need to counter that, eh?