I think you're right. They're used to a good deal of deference, even from advisers they hire to be honest with them.
Of course Trumpty doesn't value honesty, and doesn't want anyone to point out when he's wrong. He had people like that at the beginning of his term in office, and he didn't like it.
I think the campaign managers have gotten way too full of themselves. It seems to be a money grab and prestige thing with both sides.
While attempting to run the campaign for their client, they are taking on other clients and wheeling and dealing on the side to be talk show hosts and news anchors.
Like shitgibbon, they have become more important to themselves than their clients. IMO.