The way I would put it is that he's been attempting to erect a reality distortion field to distract from that fact it will take much longer than he predicts to achieve some of his more distant goals. And that RDF basically means promising things that can't be delivered, for some time.

I almost bought a tesla a year ago based on the idea FSD was going to work at some point in the future but after Elon announced some last minute hardware changes to my model's radar (removing it), and I read about all the steps you should perform at pickup, I went and bought a toyota instead.