> he's this amazing engineer, who could, possibly, "solve" FSD overnight

Even if thay were true many people hate Elon now. Enough that they will pass on any technology he is the only purveyor of.

After he celebrated letting children starve (USAID) by dancing on stage with a chainsaw many people decided to never buy any Musk product for any reason. Now there are the Epstein ties.

Worse, many people who dont care about politics at all won't get involved, because Musk is an unstable drug user and its not wise to entangle yourself in his business affairs.