Miyamoto is a great designer with great ideas, but his "style" has influenced Nintendo in a way that pushes the possibility of new designers with new styles out the door. The majority of games Nintendo produces today are his franchies with his art style. As a company, they do not have room for the "next Miyamoto" to emerge, and artists coming up in the ranks of Nintendo are consulted by Miyamoto and essentially indoctrinated into his way of game design.
So, as horrible as it sounds, I could understand some people wanting Miyamoto to go away, as in, just completely retire and no longer consult, guide, edit, produce, direct, write, suggest, test, nothing. I guess "die" could be a word for that, but I don't wish ill on him, I would just like to see an intellectual expansion on the part of Nintendo away from their "comfort zone" on IPs. Nintendo is so willing to be creative with hardware, user interaction, etc... and yet essentially they keep redesigning the same IP over-and-over in a new medium. It's Mario, but he's 3D and you use a touchscreen. Okay now you have screens in your controllers, and here's Mario...
That's frustrating. The best thing about the GameCube was the introduction of games like Pikmin, Metroid Prime and Eternal Darkness. Those represented depth and breadth of software. Nintendo is a good company, they're capable of that, but they're not doing it.
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