I find it interesting how polarizing he is to many people. Why is it hard to accept he has many flaws and strong suits?

Years ago when he acquired a cult of personality and could do no wrong, I knew it was going to swing the other way.

I never subscribed to either view. He's a brilliant engineer and a talented businessman with some apparently significant personality flaws or emotional regulation issues. In other words he's human.

The problem with alot of people isn't the emotional regulation; it's the way he runs his businesses. He embraces a fake-it-till-you make it mindset to a huge degree. He's done so many things that are either fraud, near-fraud, or completely dishonest that it makes it impossible to support someone like that in his position.

It isn't very interesting. Elon is an attention seeking narcissist. He looks for it. When he runs around Twitter calling people paedophiles he's going to have opinions formed about him. What other outcome would you expect?

Elon's latest pronouncement is that Americans are complacent and entitled, especially Californians and New Yorkers. It's not exactly a roadmap to having people think highly of him.

People tend to not like to think of others in shades of grey, especially of celebrities.

It's what leads to cult of personality or deep hatred.

As an engineer, I see him as an incredibly talented engineer that is also quite good at sales and marketing, but mostly because he talks about stuff like an engineer.

Would most companies even hire him for a salesperson role? Probably not if they've watched his presentations.

I'm not sure we've seen any evidence of Musk's 'incredible' engineering skills.

Musk says he's doing engineering 80% of the time. If you watch him discuss the products he knows what he's talking about, he's intimately involved - he's not just the standard talking head CEO role.

Does he? He seems closer to a Steve Jobs type marketer than a Bill Gates type engineer.

Why not both? Also, good design and technology markets itself - especially when it's needed.

Did you see two rockets return to earth and land side-by-side?

Do you really think Musk had anything to do with engineering design of those rockets? You really think he contributed to the rocket stabilization system or something?

I do actually. The level at which he can describe each low-level design decision shows he has a deep understanding of rocketry, chemistry, and material science and acts as more of a chief engineer rather than CEO.

Give me an example. I haven't seen anything even close to the sort.

It's possible that 'years in the future' Elon Musk will have a public profile similar to Howard Hughes today.

Arguably he's already comparable, no? I mean he hasn't made a film yet, he also didn't inherit and spend his family's fortune - although yes, he had access to enough resources to build on his own efforts, successes.