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He hasn't been involved in an engineer project in 20+ years. He did some SWE at paypal and then lead some of the first teams at spacex. That was the last time he was even 2 steps removed from a tech team.
Everything since then has been filtered through multiple layers of middle management and executive staff. It would be way more reasonable to respect him as a businessman or maybe a visionary than an engineer. (not that I'm advocating for the existence of that respect in the first place).
Yet he wants to be the first author in articles published by his research teams:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8qD8mxQAAAAJ&hl=en