AMUSING, INTERESTING, OUTRAGEOUS, or PROFOUND

Right, musk is a horrible person but I really hate posts like this which are basically just lying. Particularly with SpaceX, there are a lot of prominent engineers from SpaceX that say, yes, musk absolutely is a critical piece of SpaceXs success beyond providing capital.

Tom Mueller is one of SpaceX's founding employees. He served as the VP of Propulsion Engineering from 2002 to 2014 and Propulsion CTO from 2014 to 2019. He currently serves as an Senior Adviser. He's regarded as one of the foremost spacecraft propulsion experts in the world and owns many patents for propulsion technologies.

"We’ll have, you know, a group of people sitting in a room, making a key decision. And everybody in that room will say, you know, basically, “We need to turn left,” and Elon will say “No, we’re gonna turn right.” You know, to put it in a metaphor. And that’s how he thinks. He’s like, “You guys are taking the easy way out; we need to take the hard way.”

And, uh, I’ve seen that hurt us before, I’ve seen that fail, but I’ve also seen— where nobody thought it would work— it was the right decision. It was the harder way to do it, but in the end, it was the right thing. "

No shit musk isn't actually engineering individual components, but SpaceX would not be the most exciting, and inspiring companies in the world (IMO) without him (sadly)

Alot more examples on this reddit post, I know ew