However, history suggests this new boss will end up sparring with his doppelganger CEO, whose focus is the WRFU and mending fences with local clubs which have felt rapidly disenfranchised by decisions made in their union boardroom and Hurricanes headquarters.
Diversifying may only create more civil unrest as two separate entities struggle to draw water from the same very leaky well.
"This restructuring will allow the Hurricanes franchise considerable commercial independence while allowing the WRFU business to give added focus to community, club and provincial rugby," said WRFU chairman Iain Potter.
Even after the damning three-month review of their entire set-up, Porter, along with his Hurricanes offsider Tony Duffin, have announced no plans to follow Te Puni on that long walk out the front door.
Instead, packing their cardboard boxes are at least five staff members after ten positions will be terminated with only half resurrected under new names.
WRFU's press release was at pains to point out they still employ a total office team of 37, but didn't make clear if this was a standard level, or rather just a skeleton crew who found their workloads increased when nine of their colleagues quit during 2014.
At some point, there is no more 'trimming the fat' - you start slicing into vital organs.
Te Puni & Co have placed blame on a debilitating clause signed in 2010 making them multi-million dollar guarantors for managing the Wellington Sevens, where the bloom is definitely off the rose after two years of bad crowds.
Think about that. Those drunken blokes wearing tutus and the girls in the gold strapless dresses with hard hats, whose willingness to keep showing up proved as fickle in nature as their costumes implied, were not just vital to the union's coffers but 100 per cent relied upon to stay afloat.
WRFU prayed for fancy dress salvation, because after years of power struggles between players, coaches and administrators inside the Hurricanes, the biggest under-achieving franchise in all Super Rugby has driven away true rugby supporters who found other things to occupy their time.
Not just supporters either - after years of missing big games at Yarrows Stadium, the Taranaki Rugby Union left for greener Waikato pastures and have had no cause to regret it.
Worse, there was also no forward planning to re-tool the Sevens for the next generation of footy fans/party-goers, hungry for a cheaper entertainment alternative compared to $149 general admission and $8 per beer.
Just this last event, the Sevens were competing against the NRL Auckland Nines, a resurgent Black Caps, multiple South Island summer festivals and dare I say, even Wanganui's own NZ Masters Games.
WRFU also claimed this week the financial losses had nothing to do with the fact the Lions shockingly dropped out of the top rung of ITM Cup competition after a dismal wooden-spoon effort.
Yet more reports of rankling between the clubs who rear the players and those running the WRFU's development programme suggests the mistakes of the past have finally bore their rotten fruit, and I'm pretty sure grassroots fans felt the same with their (non)attendance at Westpac Stadium in recent winters.
Those rows and rows of empty yellow seats really do tell the tale.
All of this will stop being Te Puni's problem in four months - he says his kids are looking forward to having daddy back on the weekends.
Yet perhaps there are a few more little boys in the boardroom who should trot out the "more time with family" troupe.
Because back inside the sandbox Te Puni is walking away from, if the school-boy squabbles don't stop between staff and stakeholders, a once proud institution could soon find itself ranked very low decile.
