The results may still be there. From the outside, everything may even look convincing. But internally, the cost keeps growing.
You spend too much time in operations. Important decisions are delayed. Your attention is divided between too many priorities. The business continues to depend on your energy, control and constant involvement.
Sometimes this appears as exhaustion or burnout. Sometimes it is a loss of focus, meaning or direction. Sometimes the challenge is bigger than one person. Teams stop collaborating, responsibility becomes unclear and organisational growth creates more complexity than progress.
The problem is not that you are incapable of moving forward. The old way of operating has simply reached its limit.