It's actually sad what's happened to Musk. I used to quite admire him, before it started to become very apparent what kind of man he is. How pathetic do you have to be as the richest man in the world to want to fake being good at a fucking video game?
The idea that he's successful just because of the people behind him feels more and more believable all the time.
Despite a nominal degree, Musk is not an actual inventor, an engineer, or a scientist behind any of the achievements, and has never been more than a shopping channel salesman, convincing people he's got the product and investors that they should pour money into his ventures. That is a very important talent too of course, one that is certainly useful for helming corporations, but his problem is that he doesn't stay in his lane and do what he's good at, because he's convinced that he is a genius - and that's because everyone keeps saying he is a genius. High on his own supply, you could say.
There are a lot of smart people in Tesla/Spacex/Neuralink - lots of them - and with them the companies are doing some really amazing things. However, it's more about the smart people doing their best in spite of Musk. His ideas/demands are the ones that get in the way of the actual smart people doing their thing, like Cyberstuck, or destroying any promise of FSD actually being good ever (but he'll still sell it to you like it's the best thing, even though it's already way behind in autonomous driving tech).
Murrican corporate space and mindset is just infatuated with the idea of a strongman superhero, and corporations and their achievements usually coalesce into their CEO. Microsoft is Bill Gates, Apple is Steve Jobs, Amazon is Jeff Bezos, Tesla is Elon Musk, Nvidia is Jensen Huang, Meta is Mark Zuckerberg. It doesn't matter if those people had anything to do with the products or their development, it's still going to be their achievement. Kind of like political populism in a way, simple answers and heuristics to reduce the complexity of a topic or an issue are more digestible than thinking about the whole.