Executive Orders can also be overruled by congressional legislation and/or the courts. POTUS is the boss of a bunch of agencies. If he tells those agencies to do something, they theoretically have to do it. Having them written might be more clarifying, and easier to challenge and carried out.

What’s the thought process here, everyone at the inauguration knew it was a sham, and the most powerful people in government are hostages, yet nothing is leaking about it?