Why Soviet leaders treated Gorshkov as a stabilizer

Was Gorshkov regarded as a threat by Stalin or his successors?

He was more often treated as a dependable pillar of successive regimes because he enforced naval standards and mastered institutional politics.

Gorshkov is portrayed as a stabilizing institutional figure who could shape committees through personnel choices while remaining focused on the navy. That combination made him useful to changing political leaders and helped protect his long tenure. Formal committee decisions did not eliminate his influence because he helped determine who sat on those committees and staffed the organizations around them. His career shows how institutional power can operate indirectly without making its holder an obvious rival for national leadership.