Reid Hoffman hates Musk. Think what you will of Musk (we all have our opinions), but Hoffman criticizing one of Musks companies is the equivalent of Steve Jobs criticizing Windows. Its a personal quibble and therefore not really news worthy.
If you want to know why you shouldn't choose Windows it makes sense to get Steve Jobs' opinion and then evaluate the opinion.
This is like the guy at Techdirt writing another article about how dumb Elon is.
He still can be right.
But yeah its clear that xAI is a trainwreck and Space-X is weird cult hype.
That's like saying nobody should have listened to MLK criticising segregation because he hated the KKK.
Steve Jobs did have valid criticisms of Windows.