lets get rid of the word "leader"
The government is called an administration, so why should the head be called a leader?
I think this single word is causing a hell lot of pain to society.
The problem with the word "leader" is that implies some kind of a direction-giving capability where it should not.
It tends to give this notion of top-dog, the guy who sits on top of everyone else, telling them what to do. It has a sense of messianic exaltation which no human should feel about themselves.
They're expected to know everything about everything and answer every question, provide every opinion and tell us what we should be focusing on all the time, which is an impossible ask from even the best of human beings.
The moment we switch the word to administrator, or even policy-maker for that matter, the focus and expectation can shift more appropriately as someone who overseas the administration and makes sure its running well. This will allow them to function more like normal human beings, and will impart a sense of duty and clarity to their responsibilities. Consequently we the citizens need only go to the administrator when there are governance problems with the administration itself, resorting to querying and getting replies from the respective departments on most issues.
We won't need to have the media chasing around that one poor human being all over the place, studying every micro-expression, interpreting every little odd shake of the hand, getting a statement from them for every little thing that happens in the country, and so on.