I think what people need to realize is that what Elon does so well is that he exemplifies the "fail fast" strategy. In the early and even in the mid-stage days of SpaceX, a lot of critics would point to all these rockets that he was blowing up and saying, "look at this buffoonish, silicon valley tycoon. Doesn't he realize that rocket science takes decades of development and billions of dollars, and that's why it should be left to government institutions like nasa?"
But nowadays EVERY company in the space industry is desperately trying to ape SpaceX and they can't get hardware out there fast enough to compete.
Yes, a lot of these early weeks and months will be filled with some moves that won't work out, but Elon's strength is that he's untethered by the hand- wringing, status-quo based approach, and he's willing to just try things and find out quickly what works and what doesn't, even as outsiders mock and ridicule him, and to steer a company based on that hard data. And the beauty of software is that you can iterate and try things much more quickly. No one is going to die if something doesn't work out, so comparisons to airplanes are not apt. In a few months/ a year, things will be in a radically different place.