The Gambino Family, by tradition, had always been composed by a large majority of men with sicilian ancestries.
This was pointed out to DeMeo (who had neopolitan ancestries) by Gaggi when he constantly nagged and begged for that button. But this was only an excuse and DeMeo pointed at the fact that Gotti (who also had neopolitan ancestries) had recently been made...
If we set aside DeMeo´s hothead, lack of charisma and fondness of killing people without authorisation, I still have to give him some credit.
He was a heavy earner.
And he was the one who came up with that bullet-trick that saved Gaggi from a long prison sentence after shooting that cop.
I almost hate to say it, but DeMeo had smarts.