> The man has objectively created some incredible businesses.

... and since then called a rescue diver a pedo, got into quite the mess regarding his partnerships and offspring [1], burned dozens of billions of dollars in Twitter, seems to be doing the public customer service for a bunch of literal neo-Nazis on Twitter [2], and is apparently on a truckload of drugs on the regular [3].

It takes years to build up trust, but it's very easy to completely erode it in a few weeks.

> Why do people always have to preface Elon praise with some initial criticism.

Because otherwise, people might accuse one of being a Musk shill, and there's unfortunately quite a bunch of these, completely ignoring any of the countless issues with Musk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk#Relationships_and_ch...

[2] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2022/12/19/c...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e...