All this BS over who is running the House, until a Speaker is selected there isn't a House as no one can be sworn in without the Speaker. They'll get by it quickly when their staffers aren't getting paid.
Now, what do you expect to be done when only one chamber is GOP? At best he can fight to keep the extreme transformation of the nation by the Dems to a minimum. Anything he puts forward can get shot down twice on the way to law. So he may well be the best for the position, unlike Ryan who capitulated when the GOP had the House, Senate, and Presidency.