This is the sort extreme polarised view I was referring to. All I can say is NASA doesn't agree with you on this.
The problem is, if you go straight to "he's full of BS" it just kills all sensible debate. He's clearly not full of BS. He's delivering astronauts to the Space Station via his "startup". This is not something someone "full of BS" achieves.
I'm not saying every single thing he says is BS, like he's going around saying the sky is green and up is down. Just that he says a whole lot of shit that isn't true also.
Great! What are the margins? Most likely terrible because you have to build real stuff.
You know who ISN'T full of bullshit? Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg.
They just STFU, present modest outlook to set the stage for the company to knock it out of the park Quarter after quarter.
I could care less about the rockets, the truth is in the boring numbers, not the showmanship
Even then, effective marketing are often lies, so why value effective marketing? Effective management is so often toxic, so why value effective management? As far as I can tell, he's full of BS and his employees are treated poorly, so I really don't care so much that he's first to market.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory