That is the most sensible way to ask that. Broad and then granular follow up.
It's better than just one very detailed question that has very specific language and would be needlessly complicated
Your perspective is very generous to Elon. "It's a cheap part, why would they omit it? Probably it was some dumb kid working there".
Usually cost-cutting measures that make significant compromises are top-down pushes, profit is their concern. Might not have been the CEO himself but, in my perspective, it would have been from the top levels.
The New Left has found it's figurehead