The pattern is becoming clear, at least in dealing with strongmen: Bolton plays the bad cop, while Trump plays the capricious good cop who really prefers negotiations to war. Pompeo just runs around the globe spouting what he thinks his boss believes and pretending they are on the same page when Trump undercuts him, which is most of the time.
This only works, of course, with strongmen; there are no good cops in dealing with liberal democratic regimes. They were part of the “axis of adults” that departed long ago.
The multiplicity of voices is a feature, not a bug, of this administration. Trump thinks it makes him more unpredictable, and increases his freedom of action; that is why he continues to tolerate Bolton’s warmongering. Is the dissonance a good thing? Not if you are relying on the word of the United States in any way, shape, or form, which is most of the world most of the time.