We can't really just vote for better representatives anymore because the corporations have captured control of the political process with PACs.
The only candidates that can even have a chance of running a winning campaign are the ones with the biggest pockets, and those individuals tend to be candidates that work solely in their business donors interests.
We need to make a systemic change to allow for the system to proceed as it was designed as the games been twisted. Repealing Citizens United and outlawing/reforming lobbying laws would help, but corporations and the politicians guilty of abusing the system wouldn't ever want it to change.
Their livelihoods depend on it.
Article 2 of the constitution is all about Executive orders and when they're appropriate.
When congress and governmental bodies, such as this case the FTC, calls on the president to issue an executive order, that is the most appropriate use of an executive order, a function utilized by nearly all presidents dating back to Washington.
It's not ruling through executive orders, it's using executive orders when appropriate and this is a wholly appropriate situation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order