Honestly, SpaceX has been delivering results steadily and with seemingly no change in rate or quality since he was distracted by Twitter. The recent news [1] that he isn't doing the lead engineering at Starbase means this likely won't be felt there either.

I suppose it really boils down to whether the organization was succeeding _because_ of him or _in spite_ of him. Maybe he was necessary to get it where it is and can step back and have the company continue to perform well.

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/11/spacex-shakes-up-starbase-le...

I think the concern is not their output but the fact that Musk could one day just decide he will no longer provide rockets when $political_party is in power.

Shotwell runs SpaceX, according to NASA chief: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/spacex-leader...

Based on Musk’s recent antics, pretty sure a VP runs Tesla too.

Four days ago:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1600964083913588736

> I continue to oversee both Tesla & SpaceX, but the teams there are so good that often little is needed from me

Why? Because he bought Twitter and said that he does not like censorship?

Because Twitter is a huge distraction as apparently Musk has made himself moderator in chief.

Besides Tom Mueller actually makes the rockets go brrrrrr.

Emphasis on said versus acts like

That doesn't seem to be the case. SpaceX is killing it.

Why? Seems like the Falcon 9 team has gone from strength to strength.

Falcon 9 has been flying for a while and is indeed quite reliable. Their main project is Starship now, right? Let’s see how that will progress, Musk said they need 2 launches per week to stay afloat, but that was a lie apparently. When do they need to make it work to stay afloat for real?

The good news is that he doesn't (there no way he'd have time) run Tesla and SpaceX day-to-day other than at a very high level

  > getting less and less reliable option for space launches

By what metric, other than "I hate Musk so I slander his enterprises"?

At this point we don’t know what he will do next even as SpaceX made Falcon-9 a reliable workforce Musk has already threatened to bankrupt SpaceX at least couple of time, e.g. that time he lied about needing to launch two Starship launches per month to avoid it. Don’t forget that he is cozy with China and definitely has someone from Russia close to his ear (no way “Khrushchev’s mistake” did not come from a Russian political contact). Are we sure be will not defect with a briefcase full of secrets?