Equally, you’ve got to be pretty darn brave and/or reckless (replace that with stupid) to go up against him and the top echelons of the Russian state.Got to be some kind of special human to trust Putin at this point. Its literally like Ian Fleming writing the scripts.
He has shown that dissent is crushed openly and without concerns of public or international outcry. Those who stand against him/it will end up suffering.
From that, those who were talking about a possible CIA/MI6 operation ignores the point that Prigozhin, or just Wagner, were one of the greatest threats to him.
Regardless of our own views of him and Wanger, including terrible atrocities they've committed, they were a potential mechanism to counteract Putin.
With him and the organisation gone, I can only see his grip on power strengthening, or at least for now. For Ukraine however, his demise is a positive.