Can you make an example of a hyperfocused authistic high achieving leader person who you don't consider an asshole? (As a counterexample)

I don't know of any examples of hyper focused, autistic, high achieving leaders. I'm not aware of any examples of hyper focused, high achieving leaders having been confirmed as being autistic. So, for vacuous reasons, the answer to your question is no.

Let's suppose that there are no such examples. What then? If a person is an asshole what does it matter why they are an asshole?

He seems to have the raw capacity for intelligence and appears to have applied it well in understanding rocketry, but he does not apply it equally. He's said and done a lot of bone-headed things and ignored genuine expertise.