Yes, please. Special Counsel or Special Prosecutors are not special because they have any special powers, really.
They are appointed when there is a conflict of interest between the "line" Department of Justice and the defendant or target of the investigation, usually also part of the Executive, or the interests of the Attorney General, or a Deputy, or the President, for example.
People have this persistent idea that Special Counsel are some kind of "Uber prosecutor" appointed when we're super srs about some crime. That's not it at all.
They are special in the sense that they usually have just one job, as opposed to the many things pulling on US Attorneys, and their "jurisdiction" is not somewhat geographically limited in the same way as US Attorneys. And they tend to be very good prosecutors. But other than that, they're not so special.
Garland did not appoint Smith because he finally got serious about Trump, it was because Trump declared his candidacy against the sitting President, nominal head of DOJ, making the conflict of interest more real and less theoretical.