I feel like people tie themselves in knots to avoid the obvious conclusion; that he’s in _way_ over his head, and the whole thing is driven by a dangerous combo of incompetence and overconfidence.

I’m not totally sure why this is, and it seems to mostly be just a Musk thing; when Yahoo periodically wakes from its slumber to make the Yahoo Finance UI inexplicably worse or whatever, say, no-one attributes that to any evil plot; it’s just Yahoo continuing to be rather bad at running Yahoo.

I suppose that some people still think of him as a magical supergenius, but even ignoring the Twitter product fuckups, that’s just really hard to sustain these days.