Am i right that Tesla is his first publicly traded company? Maybe the pressure of continuous spotlight on him + need to keep up with stable CEO status is wearing him down? I no way know him or am able to fully state this as a fact but i feel like lately he seems like he has been under huge pressures, and does not like it. Maybe he just likes to invent and engineer things. Like much worse version of innovative coder/engineer who's inspiration and moral is crushed by soul-eating-meetings day after day after day.