There’s so much to dig into on this one. First off, just to state my own bias upfront, I’m not a fan of the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH). Literally just a few days ago I wrote about on…
Musk was just the moneybag. If he was replaced by someone else with money (..or just a literal moneybag) I would bet my bank account SpaceX would be just as, if not more, successful.
That's the only thing you could really credit Elon for, I think. Getting the money to operate SpaceX. But that's more of an indictment of the economic system than anything else.
SpaceX is successfull because they not only have competent engineers but are also good at managing Musk by distracting him and steering him away from critical stuff (or personal he might randomly fire).
Def because of him. Musk is still a smart guy but has just become arrogant and is out of his league with twitter. And I guess his ego is too large now to accept he handled any of it badly so he just keeps plowing forward, duct taping around...
The open question is, is the fact that twitter is still running fairly well because it is so well engineered and resilient, or is musk actually just duct taping well?