A saner Hughes may help, perhaps if the XF-11 1946 (horrific) crash never happens in the first place.
He was already showing problems. His OCD had begun to show during the filming of
The Outlaw, with his peculiar obsession about Jane Russell's figure and the bra he designed for her that she never wore.
Both the XF-11 and the H-4 were delayed because of his micromanaging and indecisiveness.
A man who has a special fork with which to sort his peas by size does not seem to be the best manager for any development program. I hate to think of the number of memoranda, all contradictory and extensive, he would write to the people producing a space rocket.